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From: brt@pyuxvv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: 0 demand?
Message-ID: <188@pyuxvv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 21:48:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 21:48:39 1983
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>>	From pyuxi!mhuxm!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!llf 
>>	From: llf@houxz.UUCP (L.FENG)
>>	Newsgroups: net.singles
>>	Subject: zero demands?
>>	Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 10:08:50 EST
>>	Article-I.D.: houxz.618
>>	I have very few friends that are completely non-demanding.
>>	Almost, I would say, the non-demanding ones are not really friends.
>>	In a friendship, each has a certain set of demands and responsibilities
>>	It is certainly not all take and not all give.

Agreed . But I prefer frienships where the exchange is not demanded but
freely given , volunteered even . This exchange is more precious to me .

>>	I think that I would treat anyone that was completely supportive and 
>>	non-demanding like terra firma, ie. I would step on them.
>>	This is not to say that that's what I'd like to do, or would think
>>	is proper, but it is most likely true. 

I too pecieve such friendships as terra firma . However , I choose to
cultivate them instead .  Thus they nourish me in my everyday life ,
and support me in the hour of need (of which my life is full).
In the past I have offered this kind of friendship to many either explicitly
or by my actions .
Some did not understand what I meant . I was sad .
Others stepped on me (as in the previous article). I no longer know them .
Still others gave me the same in return . With them I've had (and continue
to have) the best times of my life .

And so it goes...
			B.Reytblat
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