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srijeda, 02.02.2011.

Under the ''Friendly Fire''

In the military term there is an expression known as the ''friendly fire''.
It is never intended, but, unfortunately, it still happens in the battle field and many are hurt or even get killed by the, so called, ''friendly fire''.
It's been said that the words sometimes can be more dangerous and kill faster than the bullets, and the pen can be sharper than the sword.
Thinking about it, I wonder, how many times in everyday life I find myself under the ''friendly fire''?
Then again, I even more wonder how many times and how many people had found themselves being under mine ''friendly fire''?
As I am getting older and more mature, I realize more and more that way to many times and way to many precious friends have been lost because of it.
As I already said, the ''friendly fire'' is never intended but it still happens - sometimes because of the blindness (being stubborn, angry or hurt, out of fear, out of ignorance...), sometimes because of the good faith (being naive and childish), sometimes because of good intentions (Samuel Johnson remarked that ' hell is paved with good intentions').
No matter on the reasons and no matter how ''friendly'' the 'fire' was, whenever I put people under it, somebody got hurt and then the ' friendly fire' suddenly showed its true nature and became what it really is - ''hostile fire''.
I guess, the bottom of the barrel is that no matter how ''friendly'' it is, the ''fire'' should cease (stubbornness, pride, criticism, mocking, all rudeness, yelling...) and the ''negotiating'' should begin (content conversation - ''It would mean a lot to me...''
''Would you please...''
''I'd like you to...''
''I'd appreciate if...''
''If you could...'' )

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