The Sky is the Limit

When you are teamed up with someone who loves you unconditionally, the sky is the limit. Henry David Thoreau famously said "Men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high"



The Diary of Anne Frank has just been shown on television, and it was sad, poignant and deeply moving. Prof Judith Lewis Herman of Harvard University is the internationally recognised authority on trauma. She reports that researchers studied those who survived the Nazi concentration camps and that they concluded that the unit of survival is two. What that means is that people who were on their own died, but people who were with a friend or family member survived. Obviously there are exceptions in both cases. But as a general rule, people could survive that hell if they had someone to survive it with.

The bible said as much thousands of years ago. See Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verses 9 to 12:

9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:

10 If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!

11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?

12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.