Monday, June 21, 2010
Once the realisation is accepted that even between the closet human beings infinite distances cotinue to exist, a wonderful living side -by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them, which makes it possible for each to see the whole against a wide sky. ( Rainer Maria Rilke)
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Wednesday's gloomy...And yet the rain has stopped.
"I don't meddle with what my friend believe or reject, any more than I ask whether they are rich or poor; I love them."
This is an interesting quote by James Russell Lowell. Maybe I need to think of this more often, when conversing with my friends. Is what we believe and reject together, what brings us closer. Is it our responsibility as friends to show why their beliefs or rejections, may not be the best. Do friends just go along loving them as their own, regardless of what they say or do. Of course, that is what friends are for. As we do for family. Do we put more pressure on our friends to be or think a certain way. If so, do our friendships suffer?
Conflicting as it may this quote seems to better justify.
" Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. this is the service of a friend." by Emerson.
That seems for fitting for the friend who wants their friends to be the best of what they are. To progressively move ahead in life. To show them their view, on what they see. This is very profitable. It allows you to understand another view of how you are living. This to me is something i cherish with my friends. Getting a different view on complicated matters, helps in the process. That is what brings me closer. Being able to guide someone through life. It's like we should be called guides..
"Give me one friend, just one who meets
The needs of all my varying moods;
Be we in noisy city street,
or in dear Nature's solitudes.
One who can share my grief or mirth,
And know my days to praise or curse;
And rate me just for what I'm worth,
And find me still, Oh, not so worse!
Give me one friend, for peace or war,
And I shall hold myself well, blest,
And richly compensated for,
The cussedness of all the rest. "
Esther M. Clark
This is an interesting quote by James Russell Lowell. Maybe I need to think of this more often, when conversing with my friends. Is what we believe and reject together, what brings us closer. Is it our responsibility as friends to show why their beliefs or rejections, may not be the best. Do friends just go along loving them as their own, regardless of what they say or do. Of course, that is what friends are for. As we do for family. Do we put more pressure on our friends to be or think a certain way. If so, do our friendships suffer?
Conflicting as it may this quote seems to better justify.
" Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. this is the service of a friend." by Emerson.
That seems for fitting for the friend who wants their friends to be the best of what they are. To progressively move ahead in life. To show them their view, on what they see. This is very profitable. It allows you to understand another view of how you are living. This to me is something i cherish with my friends. Getting a different view on complicated matters, helps in the process. That is what brings me closer. Being able to guide someone through life. It's like we should be called guides..
"Give me one friend, just one who meets
The needs of all my varying moods;
Be we in noisy city street,
or in dear Nature's solitudes.
One who can share my grief or mirth,
And know my days to praise or curse;
And rate me just for what I'm worth,
And find me still, Oh, not so worse!
Give me one friend, for peace or war,
And I shall hold myself well, blest,
And richly compensated for,
The cussedness of all the rest. "
Esther M. Clark
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