What is friendship?
What does it take to be a good friend and make everlasting friendships? What truly is a friendship, and what does it take to have friends that last a lifetime or people that we encounter in our lives.Friendships tend to sometimes even be more deep than family. The saying we can choose our friends but we can’t choose our family comes to mind quite often. When we make a connection with a person whom we enjoy talking to, confiding in and sharing our most inner thoughts we are deeply united in a way that we may never be with our family. To have a friend we must truly be a friend, but what does this mean? Friendships that are selfish are not going to last–no selfish relationships do. In order to be a true friend you must be able to think about someone other than yourself.
What would your life be like without your friends? When thinking back in time to when we were younger, what was it like when you had no one to play with? Did you feel left out and feel as if you were missing something? Why were friends important when we were younger? Was it possibly because we wanted to be with people our own age that shared interest in playing what we did? Was this not a connection that we didn’t have with other people? Friendships would not survive without trust. Trust is one of the biggest issues that we are faced with throughout life. True friendships need trust on both sides. We must be able to fully trust this person and they must feel the same way about us. This person will be hearing our deepest feelings, listening to stories and sharing in feelings that we feel we can’t tell anyone else. If we do not feel safe about what we are exposing to them we will never be secure.
The key to making all these different types of friendships something treasured is to remember the importance of all the different types we have in our life. There will probably be no one we will be quite as united with and special as our childhood friendships. These are the ones the most history is shared with. Friends can be met at any point in your life and if you are truly a friend to them and reciprocate then they will still help fulfill our happiness. There is nothing better than sharing something happy or sad with someone we trust with all our heart. Friendships and sharing is truly the core to everything in our life and with this will come a unity of souls...
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