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Fake or real

I wonder what is so significant in an honest friend whose throwing away is equal to throwing away one’s life. I feel spiritual comfort when I am in your company. I felt an emotional fillip to think about it.  Does friendship bring happiness to one’s life?  What sort of happiness, happiness of a child flying kites or happiness of a depressed person looking at sea?  What is friendship per se and what are those elements that create and then preserve a friendship?  These questions nag me continuously when I meet an honest friend.  There is also a girl from my class who I’ve noticed a long time ago but I am sharing ideas with her now, after years. I really can’t figure out what is my relationship with both of them. Both of them are lovely, beautiful and high-brow humans and I am greatly impressed by them. That girl is awesomely mature, thoughtful and a connoisseur of art. But, sometimes I feel, perhaps there is a gap in her, a huge gap that makes her reck...

Rest if you must, but don’t you quit

  D ON ’ T Q UIT John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892) When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit . Life is strange with its twists and turns As every one of us sometimes learns And many a failure comes about When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don’t give up though the pace seems slow You may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell just how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit. For a ll the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!”