This-essay is a7702241.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PASSING FRIENDSHIPS 770224 Friendships come to pass. They come. They pass. To try to freeze them in some point in time is to destroy vitality. To be real, friendships must be vital, changing. An insecure clutching at a friendship in an attempt to keep it as a security blanket which is hoped will be eternal (just as is), is a clutching which will choke the friendship to death. Friendships come to pass to be enjoyed in their own time; in the eternal now of their presence. They must be accepted on their own terms and the participants be transformed by them---as well as create them by giving themselves to the relationship. To try to artificially maintain a friendship outside its own time --- is like decorating your home with wilted flowers. Such an effort may originate in not distinguishing between the eternal now of I-Thou relationships, and the eternity of the physical scientist --- an endless succession of boundaries between the past and the future. To try to make a friendship exist in the realm of physical eternity --- is to drag it, wilted, down the corridors of the years as measured by clocks. To enjoy a friendship in the eternal now of I-Thou relationships --- is to be transferred by the relationship within eternity which knows no past and no future. The meaning of a friendship need not depend upon continual mutual activities of the participants. The meaning of a friendship resides in the eternal now; not in time and space. From the temporal perspective friendships exist for a limited duration of time measured in days, weeks, months, and years. They come and they pass in time. It need not be so with their meaning in the eternal now --- if the participants realize a vision which transcends the limitations of time and space. Such realities are not confirmed by objective studies and analysis. They can be known only through the realization of them by people who dare to believe in them. They are not objective/temporal realities. To know them requires a different kind of knowing than that of the physical scientists. For this reason physical scientists usually fail to know their students as real friends. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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