Friendship
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Happy is the house that PRADA Handbags shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.
Happier, if he knows the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Anger, are in the lists, and he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty form the wear and tear of all these.
The gifts of fortune may be present or absent, but all the speed in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles.
There is an important element that goes to the composition of friendship, that is Truth. A friends is person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, hat I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another, only to the highest rank, that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
We parry any fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Each day is special
A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
“This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package.” He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
“She got this the Hermes Wallets first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
“Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion”.
I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it. I don’t save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words “Someday…” and “One Day…” are fading away from my dictionary. If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.
I don’t know what my friend’s wife would have done if she knew she wouldn’t be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call Designer Replica Handbags old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I’d like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It’s these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come. I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters… letters that i wanted to write “One of this days”. I would regret and feel sad, because I didn’t say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.
Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Lawmakers, advisors urge to protect personal info
Chinese lawmakers Gucci bags and political advisors have called for legislation for comprehensive protection of citizens’ personal information.
Their call came just days after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, approved a criminal law amendment banning government and corporate employees with access to personal data to sell or leak such information.
But for some lawmakers and political advisors, the amendment is not quite enough.
Xu Long, an entrepreneur-turned deputy to the NPC, urged for a privacy protection law which would appoint a specialized administration responsible for personal information safety.
The privacy protection law should also specify compensation for damage caused by personal information leakage, Xu said.
Lack of regulation to protect personal information had led to widespread harassment in China.
An online survey conducted last year showed nearly 89 percent of the 2,422 people polled claimed they had suffered because personal information had been leaked.
Anonymous messages, phone calls and spam were listed as the most reported means of harassment after personal information was made known to unauthorized agencies and individuals, according to the survey.
Zhu Zhengfu, a lawyer from the southern province of Guangdong and also a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top political advisory body, backed Xu’s call by telling of his own experience of being a victim to leakage of personal information.
“I registered some of my personal information a couple of years ago when I purchased a car and bought insurances for it,” Zhu said.
“Ever since then, every year when the insurances near expiration, I would receive dozens of calls trying to sell me insurances, and Prada Scarf they knew everything about my car model, my plate number, even my address,” he said.
The criminal law amendment did not clearly define “personal information”, which could cover a wide range of concepts, Zhu said.
A privacy protection law, or a legal explanation to clearly define the concept of personal information is our top priority here, he said.