Another proverb ...

IN my reading a proverb or two a day - from the book of the same name in the Bible, that is - I came across this one:
Disregarding another person's faults preserves love;
telling about them separates close friends.

It's interesting to read the idea that, instead of 'going on' about someone else's shortcomings, we're told to ignore them. It's what our American friends might call 'counter intuitive'. We think we ought to point out the other person's faults! "It's for their greater good!" we think. But is it? Is it rather to make us feel better?

We want to change those we love. Why? If we're honest, because it makes for an easier life for us! We don't have to live with those niggling faults! But disregarding them 'preserves love', rather than trying to change the other person. And maybe, if I disregard other people's faults, they might disregard mine!