FRIENDSHIP.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 7, 10 July 1930, Page 11

FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship is one of the cheapest and most accessible of pleasures; it requires no outlay, and no very serious expenditure of time or trouble. It is quite I easy to make friends, if one wants to; and. in the second place, just as poetry <can be written while one is weaving tapestry, so friendships can be made, and the best friendships are often made while one is doing something else. One can make friends while one works, travels, eats, walks. I am not bow speaking of mere pleasant acquaintances but the friendships where each friend feels a certain need for the other, the friendship where one desires to compare ideas and experiences, where it is a pleasure to agree, because it is so delightful to find that one's friend thinks the same as oneself, and an even greatec pleasure to differ, because the contrast is so wonderful and interesting. Of course, one cannot hope to have an indefinite xuamber of great'friends. The laws of time and space intervene! because if one is always plunging into new friendships, it is difficult to keep lip tthe old. And then, too, a certain touch of jeadousy is apt to creep in. There is surely no greater pleasure in the world than to feel that one is needed, welcomed, missed, and loved; and it is difficult to acquiesce, with perfect generosity and good-humour, if one feels that one else is more valued and ! needed tihan oneself. But it is possible, fortunately, to reach a point of friendship with another when one knews that there can never be any. suspicion or jealousy or misunderstanding again; and that even if one does not see the friend or hear from him, yet that one will find him exactly the same, and take up the old relation.-exactly where it was suspended. r"> Zr ■ ."■■■•■'.- :