Choose Your Friend Wisely

Dear all,

A True Friendship, one of the most beautiful things in human life is true friendship. One man may have fame, another may possess enormous wealth, yet neither of them can afford to be without friends; for friends are precious gems in the society of men.

Many of us can recall with pictorial vividness all about the friends of our youth: with them we started very well early in our life, with them we built great ideals together, hoping that sometimes in the greatest future we would be heroes together. But many of them dropped along the way. Some went to prison where they are languishing in jail because of the mistake of their youth; others came to their life’s end as a result of fatal accidents, and many more are heard of no more as a result of some disease. But we believe that in the eternal beyond, when body and soul shall meet again, there shall be an eternal renewal of old friendship in Christ.

Someone has said, your friend is the one who appreciate you; he appreciate your faults as well as your virtues; he understands and sympathizes with your defeats and victories; he identifies himself with your aims and ideals, with your joys and difficulties, with your hopes and disappointment, as no one else does or ever can. It is him you turn for counsel and for comfort. He may not be as learned as some or as wise as others, but it suffices that he understand you. Even his quiet listening gives you strength and renewed your courage at all times.

There is no man who does not desire the companionship of a good friend. If anyone thinks that the place people who desire to keep no friends go is a lunatic asylum, I will say to such a person that he is wrong, for a mental institution is the one place where loneness is not encouraged and where the patients are encouraged to talk to one another during their occupational therapy. You can visit a mental hospital that you know and you will find that the patients are either on a football field or at their own recreational centre playing games or engaging their minds corporately in something useful.

Thanks for reading.