Kindness

My friend Eduard is very kind to me, as kind as kindness can get, he's always been, despite I must have not always been a person deserving of such kindness. Year after year he sends me his best wishes on November 9, my birthday, come hell or high water. I know it is a simple, trivial, small thing to do, but still, he does it, a simple, trivial, small act of kindness which does the trick of making me happy.

For my part, I think I began my friendship with you as an "animal" one. When I saw you first in BUP 1, you were nothing but rather an empty-headed guy who I happened to like for no good reason at all. You went on being it for many good years, and then one day I found the empty-headed boy had turned a "sensible, restless and with a character" man, and I liked him even more. (Eduard, Jan 25, 2001)