FRIENDSHIP

FRIENDSHIP

Friends, here is a short write-up on friendship that I came across through a friend's mail and thought like sharing it. Hope, you would like it as much as I did. 

It happened in a battlefield during World war I.

Horror gripped the heart of a young soldier, as he saw his long time friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing  over his head, the soldier asked his Lieutenant if he might go out into  the "no man's land", between the trenches, to bring his fallen comrade back.

"You can go," said the Lieutenant, "but I don't think it will be worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away."

The  Lieutenant's words didn't matter, and the young soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoist him onto his shoulder and bring him back to their company's trench.

As the two of them tumbled in together in to the trench, the officer checked the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his young junior, "I told you it wouldn't be worth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded." 

"It was worth it, Sir," said the soldier.

"What do you mean, worth it?" responded the Lieutenant. "Your friend is dead."

"Yes Sir," the private answered, "but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say .... "Joe....., I knew, you would come...."

 

Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how one looks at it.  

It would be worthwhile to take up all the courage and do something your heart tells to do, so that you would not regret not doing it later in your life ... .