Friendship, everyone talks about it, everyone seems to know what it is. But do we really know what real friendship is. Friendship can be so many things, it can be a group of people hanging out together and having a real good time, it can be a close knit of people who know each other in and out and have no secrets from each other. It can also be people who share a close bond yet have many secrets from each other.
What is the real function of friends? They can be there to support one another at all times, in all situations. It can also be to have a good time together and not share anything. It can be meeting time after time and sharing somethings while leaving out others or it can be having a right to tell a friend that he or she is wrong.
Most people in this world talk really highly of friends and friendship, those who have few or no friends are considered outcasts, yet what is real friendship and everyone of these people will give you a different definition. Everyone believes friendship is different and yet they all consider it necessary. Personally I think a friend is someone who comes through for one in all kinds of situations, who is honest with you and understands you enough to take your oddities as a part of you. And friendship is something in which one can tell when a friend needs one, when one is there when one is needed, when one respects the other for who they are and understands the other, even if they do not agree on everything. Who after years will still be the one to answer your call, one can only be a true friend if one can trust the other to be there for one in the good and the bad times, to keep ones secrets to keep theirs and yet stop one from committing a mistake one might regret later.
Ever thought how many real friends we have? And if you do you might find that there are real few friends one can rely on. And if there are a few of those in your life, then you are blessed.
I have two friends who can't be substituted with anyone else in the world and I'm lucky to have them. I know they're my real friends, by any definition and they know who they are.
ReplyDeleteDefinitions aren't necessary..friendships are at times just sustained to maintain some sort of sanity through social interaction - believe it nor not, bu most of us have friends that we don't even like that much! It's all a part of social interaction which we somehow feel inherently obliged to maintain.
but isnt it hypocrisy then if we call them friends...n yet not even like them much........isn't it better to be a loner but yet be a true friend to those who are friends with you,rather then having many social acquaintances that one doesn't even like and still terms them friends
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