Friendship is a precious privilege of life. People sometimes overlook the value of friendship. Romantic love is recognized and glorified. Natural love, as between mother and child, is greatly praised and admired. However, friendship is often passed by.
Friendship is not a necessary thing, but it is a precious thing. Friendship is a choice, not a compulsion; hence, friendship might be considered all the more meaningful. When two people choose to spend time together in friendship, they have an opportunity to double their perspective. What one views in life is from one point of view. What the other views in life is from another point of view. When the two share their views, they suddenly have a better understanding of life, because they have the opportunity to share two points of view. When a third person enters the picture, then not only is there a third point of view, which provides more of a three-dimensional picture of life, but another viewpoint of the first two friends becomes available. The third person might bring out qualities in the other two, which the first two might not have brought out in each other. The three friends all contribute to revealing, discovering, and appreciating the depth and beauty of one another.
Friendship increases our ability to recognize beauty in others. It also increases the beauty in us. Friendship provides the opportunity for the unknown best to come forth from each of us. Once that unknown best is made known, a new level of unknown best comes to the queue and waits its turn to be brought out.
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