Nicola is writing about friendship (she’s studying psychology)and I came across a set of instructions for her, regarding the submission of the written report. It was about stapling the completed document prior to submission. It read as follows:
“Once you have completed your report, staple the pages together (using one heavy duty staple top left) with the Coursework Header Sheet on top. Do not hand in your work in folders (plastic or other types) or spiral- (or otherwise) bound. Do not build up your submission with layers of regular-size staples (risking cuts to examiners and loss of marks for presentation). Since the University does not provide a heavy-duty stapler for student use, the Department suggests that students obtain appropriate stapling at a commercial photocopying shop (such as Prontaprint, Kall Kwik, Rank Xerox, etc.). A 13mm depth staple handles 70-100 sheets, and a 17mm depth staple handles 110-130sheets, for example, so know in advance how many sheets your report contains.”
Apparently the staplers on the left just wont cut the mustard! Nicola will have to go and purchase or otherwise obtain a big huge industrial type stapler like the one on the right.
Anyways, I digress. This week I am on about friends and friendship. The word ‘friend’ is defined in many different ways, a Google definition returns:
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"
A friend, according to the website ‘ten word wiki’, is “That person you thought you could trust... Two faced arse” (http://www.tenwordwiki.com/friend)
Friendship ... The Oxford dictionary defines a friend as a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations. During the course of your life you will accumulate a number of friends. Some good some bad. Friendship is all about how much you care and understand each other. It is a pure relationship, which would make your friend smile, feel good as to how much you love him and care for him (or her). It is all about talking, listening and building up a strong relationship loyalty among each other. It is string of love which develops gradually with each other’s involvement.
That’s why I have kept my list small and manageable. Retaining only those who I will keep in contact with.
Within ones group of friends, there tends to be one who is a ‘best’ friend. Not all friends attain the status of ‘best’. A true friendship does not consist of a huge number of friends you keep but it is valued by its worth and capability to hold you and stand by you in all phases of life. That said finding a best friend from among your friends is the hardest task to do. A lot of people say that the best friends automatically come closer from among a group of friends and you will never have to make an extra effort to do find one. Your best friend will be the one who will understand your strengths and shortcomings and stand by you in all your good and bad phases of life.
In closing I would like to leave you with a final thought.
A good friend will always come and bail you out of prison. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying “Man, we really ****** up this time!”
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