hout requiring any stipulation from me. The other element of friendship is tenderness. "We must be our own before we can become another's." We must learn to love ourselves before we can love our friends. We learn, first with ourselves, what we like, how we like to be treated. This way we are more prepared to become a friend of someone else. I do not agree when Emerson says, "I do with my friends as I do with my books." That is, not see them very much and use them only once. I believe we live our lives with our friends some everyday and some infrequently. I do agree when he says he enjoys his friends, but he cannot afford to study their visions, he may lose his own. We should enjoy our friends and not their lives. And I love and agree with the line, " The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust." You cannot have a friendship you believe in and trust without both parties giving there all, and being sincere. ...
