KEEPING FRIENDSHIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

KEEPING FRIENDSHIP.

THE SECRET. Human beings change very muck. You fall in love with someone, you get to know their i:leas, their likes and dislikes, and you go an for a long time acting ori this knowledge, only to find sooner or later that jnu are failing them—failing to interest them, failing to understand thern, failing to lill their lives. This is because you have not allowed for this certainty of change and growth—change and growth often brought about by the impact of your personality on theirs. If you find that someone you love dearly is growing away from you, sit down and examine yourself to see if you have been too stationary. Review ycur ideas, and give the friend a few shocks occasionally! You cannot stand still i:i life—you change and grow, arid you will not keep your friends unless you grow and change with them. This does not mean change in fundamentals necessarily—a rose bush that was only twelve inches high last year and produced three blooms may, this year, be two feet higa and produce a dozen blooms. But it is the same rose—only stronger and fuller and sweeter. Ihere is no need for friends or lovers, parents and children, husband and wife, ever to gro'v apart if they will not take each other ;oo much for granted, if they will trouble to take note of change and growth, and treat it with interest and respect. If you feol yourself getting too stationary, too much in a rut, get out into different surroundings if possible; if it is not possible to do so physically, take up some courso of study and reading that will give you a change of mental surroundings, and you will find yourself once again as interesting to those you love as you wcro when you first knew them.