Pronounciation

ESTI PURWANINGSIH ERDIYANTI

PRONOUNCIATION 1A

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Friendship IXX

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And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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And he is your board and your fireside.
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For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
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When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you

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withhold the "ay."

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
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For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and

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 shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
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When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
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For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the

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 climber is clearer from the plain.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth:

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 and only the unprofitable is caught.
                                              
And let your best be for your friend.
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If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

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For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
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Seek him always with hours to live.
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For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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Khalil Gibran

Submitted: Thursday, January 01, 2004