Few days back, I read this quote somewhere. If I am not wrong, this is Aristotle's quote. But, nothing struck in my mind then.
He is such a great thinker, otherwise it is not possible to utter something, that would stay alive for eras! Alive, I mean hereby, is true!
This afternoon, I was thinking about something, which I am trying to forget!(odd isn't it!). Then suddenly this quote struck in my mind... How true is it!?
Friendship : Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither too weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away. (A life for a life - Dinah Mulock Craik).
This is the best definition, I could come across, so far. With this foundation, how significant is "equality" for friendship. (Alas, going to be very philosophical!!)
Equality!?
What is means? Equality in terms of what? What are all the factors determine inequality?
Equality: So far, I only have studied in my mathematics, what is equality! I really never come across equality, in terms of anything, in the real world. In fact, there is no equality exists between any two, except in theory. And the nature (you may name it whatever you may want!) itself doesn't allow any two things to be exactly equal (remember, the Pauli's exclusion principle!!)
So, in all the rest of the discussion equality is "absolutely a relative measure!".
What is the point in spending time in discussing about it, when it turns up to be relative one?
In science, there is a phenomenon called resonance (Hey!! I am working in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance!!). It is nothing but, when the frequency of two waves becomes equal, the amplitude of the two waves just adds up. So here, the frequency is the one determines the equality, though the waves may not be of same amplitude!
Let me try to fit this curve in to our real world thing. Just like this, when two persons have same frequency of thoughts and characters, there is a great possibility to be good friends.
One might ask, what if the waves of same frequency, but anti-phase to each other. In real world issue, I would analogise this to the "ego" of each individual.
When will two different individuals, who are not kin, would have same kind of thoughts and characters?
Answer to this question requires a great deal of discussion under the developmental psychology context, which I will discuss sometime later.
But for now, broadly and generally, those who brought up under same or at least similar environment, would have a great possibility to think and behave alike.
Equality, if defined by thoughts and characters, which are determined by the developmental psychology which in turn determined by environment and society under which they are brought up, would never brings up a friendship, that holds the aforementioned definition, if the determining factors are different!
My ideology is self centred. I like a quote of Mr.Mohandoss Gandhi,
"You should be the change that you want to see".
I believe, there could not be any better means to understand this, otherwise a self-centric approach. Since, every man constitutes the society, any change in the society should roots form each individual, for it to sustain, otherwise it would not sustain.
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