{"id": "card_n_1c81307d0e25", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Friendship break", "body": "Two men walked together for many years. One day one of them stepped on the other's foot. They argued; then they walked apart. Each told the story to those who would listen, and the story grew. By the time they met again at the marketplace, each carried a version of the other that was not the man before him. The man each had become enemies with did not exist.\n\nAsk yourself: Which version of the friend are you angry at?\n\nBROTHERS — two or three witnesses (Mt 18:16). The story you have told yourself needs witnesses to test it.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "scripture_prov_27_6", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "authority_trust", "metabolism", "time_sequence", "BROTHERS"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "c31bce9fc38b783d007abdf1a7f387fb389e6ae543aa4c9c56a862c4aaaada82"}