AN UNCUT DIAMOND

When we begin a new relationship, it's like finding an uncut diamond. It looks like a common piece of glass. If you toss it into the garbage, it will become part of the garbage. How much the diamond radiates and sparkles depends on how much genuine effort and time goes into cutting and polishing it. 

Your new neighbor, new girl or boyfriend, new spouse or child is an uncut diamond. How these relationships grow or progress depends on how much time, thought and effort you have put into them. Be attentive, continue polishing your relationships and they will sparkle. Diamond cutters examine and then see the potential beauty within the raw stone. Now with clear expectations of what the diamond can be, the diamond cutter makes it so. It's similar with people and relationships. People, especially young people and children, will live up to or down to our expectations of them.