Tang Soo Do · Five codes
Honor friendship
Definition
A friend is not an audience and not a cover. Honor means you tell him the truth and you do not abandon him in the hard hour.
The lesson
Company enjoys a man. Friendship will correct him and will stay. Both are required. Correction without loyalty is contempt. Loyalty without correction is how men help each other stay small.
Honor also means you do not use a friend’s confidence as a story, and you do not ask him to join you in something you already know is wrong.
Give one friend either the correction or the encouragement he actually needs. Stay for the hard minute. Do not soften it into nothing.
A friendship that only functions when no one is failing, or a pact to hide each other’s worst.