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Old 11-07-2006, 07:03 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gautam View Post
The first rule of friendship is to not try to change your friend. The soul is what the soul is and it changes into whatever it wishes to.
I disagree with this on a nitpick, though: I think there is nothing wrong with trying to change one's friend; it is when you try to force change that's wrong. It is also wrong to force a friend not to change, as Sireesha's apparently is; again, however, it is fine to attempt to prevent them from changing.

As long as you treat your friend as an equal, rather than as someone to be pushed around, I think there are no issues.
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