FRIENDSHIP
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies” – Aristotle “Friends are flowers in the garden of life”
What is friendship?
Friendship is a bond between two or more people and form relationship to share ideas, secrets, worries, happy moments and supporting, trusting, helping, forgiving mutually, while spending time together with affection.
A good friend is a wonderful gift
We all need a friend to share both the joy and sorrow, and all of us have friends. Family relationships are formed when we born and we can’t choose it. But, friends and friendships are formed with our choice and have the option to choose. If you want to have good friends, you must be a good person and should not be selfish. All friendships are formed with mutual trust and confidence. Friendship is a better relationship than family relationship and real friends are treated like family. When you have a good friend you shall reap a bouquet of happiness filled with unlimited joy in a cauldron.
True friendship
Formal contacts come easy but it takes time and efforts to get true friendship. A true friend is one who stands your side, when the rest of the humankind walks out. True friendship is built on mutual respect, kindness, understanding and makes unbreakable rapport even in adverse conditions. True friendship is tested in times of adversity and gets vindicated and nurture automatically, once established.
Characteristics and advantages of good friendship
- A capsule for life enhancing
- Intensify the pleasure and happiness in life
- It is a valuable gift that we should never lose
- Being together without pretence
- Receiving feedback without questioning motive
- Easing pain and shares grief and sorrows
- Loving each other despite the differences and imperfections
- Admiring virtues and not expanding on flaws
- Helping unconditionally and expecting nothing in return
- Finding time to be together despite myriad obstacles in life
- Giving freely and taking graciously when needed
- It is not instantaneous and can only be earned
- It knows the difference between form and substance
- Friends will be there when you need them
- Hanging out with friends may reduce the risk of loneliness
- Friends force and encourage us work towards our goals
- Can have more friends through good friends
- Inspire and discipline one another
- Encouraging one another to get up after fall down
- Friends serve as confidants, counselors and motivators
I have one friend namely Sreehari. He is a cool guy and always maintains his temperament irrespective of the situations. He is a true friend, who always used to guide me in all my endeavors. We meet many people dya-in and day-out, but very few people you get to mingle with, to share your inner thoughts and ideas. He is simple and plain thinking person, not to degrade and not to be exaggerated. I have read about
true friendship many times in many books, but I came to conclusion that you don’t have to find a true friendship. Circumstances will definitely fetch you a good and a true friend, and it was our onus to maintain and respect friendship.
