THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 16, 1940
Everybody Needs A Friend
ago,
How many friends have you you are indeed blessed, and you for by his very nature man is able and "cosy" when you meet is a writer by profession, like my should give thanks, every day of a lonely creature, ever seeking the again in a city teashop. Lots of self. Our friendship is on a com Real friends I mean, not simply your life, for your good fortune. stars, with his feet gripped by the us make friends in one environ-plete basis of equality. Sometimes acquaintances who would not]
prosaic clay of earth you must ment and then feel that we have she lunches with me, next time I miss you, and whom you in turn
Even if there are not three on give "all you are" when you seek been betrayed when the friendship lunch with her, whom you could rely; whatever to break down the barriers of re-does not transplant. would not miss if they passed out
your failing, whatever your mis-serve and suspicion that separate
The roots of our friendship were of your life forever.
fortune-if there is only one, then, all human beings one from an last a lifetime it is not necessarily work together some years
All the same, for a friendship to implanted through doing a job of in my own humble opinion, I still other. If you are trying to make up consider that you are more for-
essential that both people should but they have spread and taken your mind what constitutes a real tunate, Infinitely more fortunate, Many times it will happen that have completely similar tastes the strength of an oak tree, be- than thousands of men and wo-you will give your affection, your and live against twin backgrounds, cause we accept each other as two friend, as compared to a casual
men who pass through this world encouragement, your most intim-
: moderately intelligent human be- acquaintance, I can tell you a way of ours without ever reaching sure ate confidences, to someone who On the contrary, opposites very ings, who both think it is very to make quite certain.
anchorage, where friendship is will pretend for a time to be often strike the deepest com- exciting to be alive, and like equally fond of you and equally munion of all. But, however op-swopping our impressions of the Play a game that I was taught
glad of your company.
posite two people may seem on passing pageant. many years ago by a very wise What constitutes a good friend?!
the surface, you will nearly al- Then, when a newcomer turns ways discover, if you trouble to Never, if a man offers you old lady, who, when I was start-For obviously, to be able to boast,
of possessing a host of friends, up on the scene, with perhaps analyse
that comradeship more friendship Instead of love, con- ing out on my career, told me you must first be a good friend, more to give in material ways than closely, that they do possess one sider yourself insulted. On the never to forget that: "Everybody Would you like to know how yourself, will blow cold and be-great thing in common. It may contrary, you should be very needs a friend-more than a wife have worked it out, in my own come expert in evasions,
be a similar sense of humour or proud that he values so highly a similar dislike of dictators! your intelligence and your sports-
manship. Platonic Friends
or a husband; more than money: more than health; more than any- thing in this world of ours."
concerned.
creed of living?
I believe she was right, and this was the game slie taught me to play once a year;
A bad friend is a taker.
Lonely Figure
Never forget that, no matter! how lonely you are, how poor in
One of my greatest friends is a
And now play the game which
But do not be bitter when that Long ago, I realised that the happens, or refuse to open your world is divided into two classes heart again. There are so many
If your creed of living is to be of people-the givers and the unhappy people in this world in Finally, one last piece of advice. Ja complete one, it should include takers. A good friend is a giver. desperate need of a friend, aGet out of your head, once and at least one platonic friendship staunch comrade, to share their for all, that men and women can with a member of the opposite every thought and anxiety. Just not be friends; good friends; pla-sex. I know in my 'own case that on the other side of the fence an-tonic friends. I have a positive my friendship with Pam has ful- other lonely soul is waiting, long-proof that they can.
Alled a definite need in my life. Pretend that you have been sent
Once I went to watch a rehear-ing to grasp your hand if only you to prison; it does not matter what sal when that greatest of all con-do not raise such self-conscious, your crime, but, whether through ductors, Toscanini, was putting a suspicious barriers every time a girl called Pamela Frankau, who that wise old lady taught me! your own fault or someone else's famous London orchestra through stranger tries to get on friendly
its paces.
It was the first time terms with you. crooked dealing, you find yourself that he had conducted it-the first shut away from the world, with rehearsal of all. the star of your destiny tempor- arily hidden behind the blackest
I can see him now, that short this world's goods, how battered figure with that leonine head and by the tide of circumstance, you cloud of night.
mass of white hair, walking slow-hardly have to cross the street be- ly down the gangway between the fore you come face to face, if you! And then the day comes when deserted seats which a few nights did but know it,
with someone you are released from that prison later would be filled with a madly who is even lonelier, even poorer; and slowly, nervously you pass
applauding audience, through the prison gates, Would He seemed a very lonely figure] you find yourself alone at that to me at that moment before he raised his baton. And then he moment?
spoke, one short sentence, and yet, the exhortation within those few words was like the playing of all Beethoven's symphonies rolled
Are You Certain?
Or are you certain, quite, quite into one. This is what he said to certain, that there would be a the men gathered there beneath friend waiting to take your hand his baton:
in theirs, to comfort you, to en- courage you, to believe in your future, and to forget the past?
'Give all you are."
And they gave it. In their
By-
GODFREY WINN
music they put not only all their even more buffeted, than yourself. Well, I am waiting for your physical energy, but all their Once you accept that salient answer. It's a pretty deep ques-spiritual knowledge, too; their ex-truth, you should never be with- tion, I know. And let me tell perience garnered over a lifetime, out a friend again.
you this: If you can be positive in all their dreams, all their positive
your heart and in your mind that affirmations.
you know at least three people in
this world who would stand by: If you are going to be happy in
A Short Cut
A short cut to friendship is to
you under any circumstances, then your lonely journey through life go in search of people with the
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same interests as your own. For instance, I have friends with whom I play tennis in the sum- mer, and friends with whom I go, to the movies in the winter.
They are not necessarily same friends.
the
Women especially make the mistake of running a friendship to death in the same way as they will get a passion for a certain colour for clothes or a certain brand of sweets.
You cannot rush a friendship. Its roots have to grow deeply and] gradually, and you have: to be very careful that the plant is watered by your generosity and planted in the right soil.
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By that, I mean it is not fair to expect a friend with whom you became intimate while on holiday! at the seaside to be equally amen-[
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