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Chapter 88

Chapter 5 Section 9 The Road to Friends

[Former Soviet Union] Prish

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It often happens in life that one person walks hard in the deep snow, and another person walks gratefully in his footsteps, and then a third, and a fourth ...So a new road gradually formed there that could be passed by both young and old.In this way, because of one person, there is a winter road for a whole winter.

But it also happens that after the person walks by, the footprints are left there for nothing, and no one follows, so the snowstorm that blows close to the ground covers it, and the snow quickly returns to its original state.

The fate of all of us on the earth is like this: often the same labor, but the luck is different.

The birth of beauty
Everyone in the world knows that roses need dung to nourish them, but what the world sees are only delicate roses but not dung, which is fertilizer.The rose itself should be shown, with a little rotting dung left behind, to show that next to beauty is dung, and next to freedom is the necessity from which it wrestles.

road to friends
Dear friend, ignore, let alone fear, the thoughts that keep you from rest and sleep.Don't go to sleep, but let the thought penetrate your soul, and be patient, for there will be an end to this trouble.

You will soon feel that you desperately need to open a way from your heart to another person's heart, and what is disturbing your heart this night is precisely to open a path from you to another person. The purpose is to allow you to gather together.

【Together with you】

You can't take a friendship for granted, it needs to be constantly refreshed.Try crossing two fingers -- even close fingers can break the bond.They will gradually leave.Friendship cannot be bought or ordered, but it can be lost.So, it has to be revisited.It needs to be revisited from time to time, and never too late.The details of how the friendship is repaired are not important.A healthy friendship is made up of many nameless actions.The most important thing is intention - to maintain a spiritual intention worth maintaining and based on mutual love.This intention occurs when people miss and forbear.These are all ways of sharing friendship.

There is nothing more important in the world than friendship.If you keep a friend, you will increase the richness and value of your life.Human nature is a mixture of greatness and smallness, goodness and evil, sublime and humbleness, and everyone is so similar.Some people may have stronger personalities and more opportunities, so they can express their nature more freely, but the human nature at the bottom is the same.

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