Dear You,

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The first short story is perhaps my favourite, by Khalil Gibran - a prolific Lebanese writer, poet, philosopher and grand master of the short story who lived in late 19th - early 20th century.

The Pearl

Said one oyster to a neighbouring oyster, “I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress.”

And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, “Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.”

At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, “Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbour bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.”