Old Wooden Bucket

OLD WOODEN BUCKET An ended friendship is like an old wooden bucket that no longer can collect the water without letting some of it drain out the hole in its bottom onto the cobblestone floor. It hurts to stop seeing a friend, but relationships and wooden buckets don't last forever. No friendship can be completely replaced, but to stay with those who are destructive of self-development destroys the mind and the heart's purpose. The ups and downs of life can rot out an old wooden bucket, or an old friendship, to the extent that it cannot survive. Ended relationships are remembered as the old wooden bucket is remembered, but there is a time to take them up and a time to let them go. Janet Marie Bingham