"What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you." -Oswald Chambers
Read this on utmost.org this morning and it struck me as really interesting... I'm not entirely sure why. I guess it's true though. I would venture to guess we are more cautious to share our joys with people we don't fully trust. We fear that they will either think us silly/petty or that they will somehow be jealous or feel we are "rubbing" it in. Either way, we fear the status quo of the relationship would be changed (even if only for a little while). Therefore, true friends are those that we trust will be there in our ups and downs... Even when they are "down" and we are "up" - and vice versa.
Anywho... Just some thinkin's. ;)
Oh, as a side note... The rest of the post this morning was good too.. Check it out here: http://utmost.org/the-secret-of-the-lord/
Interesting. I find it interesting that people are so wary of sharing stuff with friends. To me, that's what makes good friends, when they share things that they don't tell other people. I must have a lot of trust in people, because I'll tell almost anyone stuff like that.
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