Most of us always (0) KEEP forgetting important dates, apart from the lucky few 1 are blessed with a good memory or the ability to organise 2, so they don't forget important things. How many times have we all said "I wish I had remembered!" How often have we offended people by 3 remembering their birthdays or name days? 4 they say it doesn't matter, we know, deep down, that we have hurt 5 feelings. We can always try to make it up to them next time but unfortunately, the damage was already done and our relationship with that person will 6 be quite the same again. On the 7 hand, we sometimes do too much for someone else because we want to please them and then feel we have damaged our own interests in doing so. When friends are involved we 8 find it difficult to say "no" when they ask us to do them a favour, but true friendship should mean we can say "no" without any risk to the relationship.