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Friendship makes life easier and richer. It has been proven that people who are social and have a lot of friends live longer and are healthier and happier than people who do not have friends.
There is a saying - ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed'. Friends are those who stand by you in good times and in bad times. They are there when you need them the most, whether they say so or not. Life is easier when there is someone with you.
The Power of Holding Hands By Rabbi Harold Kushner
I was sitting on a beach one summer day watching two children, a boy and a girl, playing in the sand. They were hard at work by the water's edge building an elaborate sand castle, with gates, towers, moats and internal passages. Just when they had nearly finished their project a big wave came along and knocked it down reducing it to a heap of wet sand. I expected the children to burst into tears devastated by what had happened to all their hard work. But they surprised me. Instead, they ran up the shore away from the water laughing and holding hands, and sat down to build another castle.
I realized that they had taught me an important lesson. All the things in our lives, all the complicated structures we spent so much time and energy creating, are built on sand. Only our relationships to other people endure. Sooner or later a wave will come along and knock down what we have worked so hard to build up. When that happens
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only the person who has somebody's hand to hold will be able to laugh.
Your joys are doubled and your sorrows halved in the presence of friends and loved ones. Both the children could either cry about the broken castle or they could laugh about it and start all over again. In the long run it does not matter what you have or get, as much as what you give.
Blame Destroys Friendship
Blame never affirms, it assaults. Blame never restores, it wounds. Blame never solves, it complicates. Blame never unites, it separates.
Blame never smiles, it frowns. Blame never forgives, it rejects. Blame never forgets, it remembers. Blame never builds, it destroys.
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