I am grateful to my friend Sister Marie Hartmann for sharing this fable with me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
It was the
coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines,
realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they
covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their
closest companions. After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from
the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a
choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the
Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live
with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their
companions in order to receive the heat that came from the others. This way
they were able to survive.
The moral of the
story is: The best relationship is not the one that brings
together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the
imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities.
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