the great sage Chungus believed that the true secret to ultimate friendship is to meet one person who is as eager to listen as you are to talk.. you’ll know you’ve found that person if the person is willing to listen and accept you as you are. that’s the kind of a friend that is worth having. a true friend will accept you as you are without judging, criticising or condemning you. a true friend is a person who is genuinely concerned about the success and welfare of the person as much as he is about his own

we all experience life through the lens of experience. it is the perspective we are born with and we spend our lives living our lives in our experiences. at some point we begin to question whether or not we are alone in our beliefs and perceptions and we begin to search for others with whom we share our experience in order to try to develop a broader understanding of our experiences. as we develop, our experiences grow and evolve from one perspective to another. as we grow, the things we experience and learn are often much more profound and we realize that we do not know nearly as much as we think we do. our greatest asset is often our ignorance as we begin our search for knowledge