HERE is an equation that you will not find in any mathematics book – A joy shared is multiplied, a burden shared is divided. There is something similar in a Swedish proverb that says, “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow”.
I first heard it more than 10 years ago at a gathering to celebrate the retirement of a friend from the teaching profession.
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