What Destroys Friendship?

Gossip

A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the damage.

"Go to the marketplace," he said, "and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road."

Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay, the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.

"You see," said the old sage, "it's easy to drop them, but it's impossible to get them back. So it is with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong."

A Walk to Remember

This movie is one of my favourite old movies. I don't know why, but I can watch it over and over again. It's so unique and unpredictable.


It's about a boy from the popular but troubled undirected group of students who fell in love with the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with him. Well, at first I thought it was pretty predictable. But I was wrong, it's totally unpredictable. Jamie had terminal leukemia and she had stopped responding to treatments.

I really like when Landon discovered that Jamie had a wish list, and he set out to help her accomplish them. He brought Jamie to the state line, because Jamie said that she wanted to be in two different places at a time. He also built a telescope for Jamie so that she can see the hyakutake comet, and more.

Jamie's cancer got worse but Landon didn't leave Jamie's side until her father practically had to pry him away. Anyway, the movie ended with Jamie's death, but only after she got married with Landon in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list. Landon himself became a better person through Jamie's memory, achieving the goals that he set out to do, like she did.

And I really like this quote from this movie:
"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends" (Corinthians 13:4-8)

5 Reasons

Okay, well ummm honestly I'm not really in the mood right now. But I'm desperately bored for sure, it's approximately 12.30 a.m and sadly I'm still awake. So I think blogging sounds good right now. But I'm not going to blog about what happened to me today, cause I know it'll make my mood even worse. So I think, I'm gonna blog about 5 reasons why I won't go to school tomorrow.

Firstly. Cause I just got back from the hospital like an hour ago, and I don't think that I'll be able to sleep tonight. Maybe, I'm gonna fall asleep at 03.00 or 04.00 a.m (gaaaah, I hate my stupid inability to sleep) so there's no way for me to go to school tomorrow (unless you expect me to sleep all day long in my class, which is obviously impossible)

Secondly. Today, someone had successfully turned my perfect mood into my worst mood of this entire month. So, all I want right now is just to be all alone. And school's definitely not the right place.

Ummm, third? My head keeps spinning like hell. Right, dizzy. I don't know why, but I always get dizzy and nose-bleeding easily lately. I can't stop coughing and sneezing too. It's freaking me out actually, but I'm sure it'll heal by itself. I won't visit the doctor again, I just can't stand another pills. 5 pills, 3 times a day? Okay, it's more than enough you crazy doctor.

Fourth. LAZY. I'm too lazy to wake up early tomorrow. Too lazy to have to face bunches of annoying teachers and tons of confusing subjects. And believe it or not, I'm too lazy to get out of this house. Cause I know I have to face so many people out there and I don't think that's a good idea for me right now.

Fifth. Because I just finished my stupid examination week today. 5 days, hundreds of crazy questions. Plus their lovely minimum scores for every subject. 80? GAAAAH, give me a break. What do you think I am, sir?

And these 5 reasons are strong enough to make me stay at home tomorrow.