How does one define friendship? To me, friendships can be forged between family members, husbands and wives, co-workers, classmates and so forth. For the purpose of this article, however, I will restrict the definition of friendship to this : frienship between friends.
Is friendship for a lifetime? What do you think? For me personally, I believe that a friendship can be for a lifetime. However, whether friendships can last for a lifetime or not will depend on several factors. Firstly, friendships need time to cultivate. So it’s crucial that you spend time with your friends if you want your friendships to last. Secondly, for friendships to last, there must be mutual trust. Thirdly, honesty is essential if you want your friendships to last. In addition, friendships must be genuine in order to last. Last but not least, friendships must be built on the foundation of love in order to stand the test of time.
Now, let me elaborate on these factors. If you are someone who values friendships, I believe that making time to cultivate them will be of great importance to you and will be deemed as necessary too. It is also crucial that you spend time regularly with your friends if you want your friendships to last for a lifetime.
For friendships to last for a lifetime, mutual trust is extremely critical. Just imagine what will happen if you do not trust your friends and vice-versa. You will probably be guarded when you are in the presence of your friends. Likewise, your friends will probably be guarded when they are in your presence. Do you not think that your contact with one another will diminish over time if trust is lacking?
Honesty is closely linked to mutual trust. Why do I say that? The reason is simple. Can you trust your friends if they lie to you, especially if they are consistently dishonest towards you? The answer is obvious, isn’t it? Honesty is crucial in all relationships, especially if you want your relationships, including friendships, to grow and to last. Without consistent honesty, you can expect your friendships to be shallow and non-lasting.
What do I mean by genuine friendships? I believe that a genuine friendship is not and should not be based on what one can gain from it. If a person intends to gain something from a friendship, then I would thnk that this friendship is not genuine. I believe that whether a friendship is genuine or not can be known over a period of time. Do you stand by your friends when they encounter difficulties in their lives? Do your friends stand by you when you encounter hardships? If your answer is yes, then surely the friendships are genuine and you should treasure them.
Last but not least, lasting friendships are built on the foundation of love. Some of you may be thinking that the only relationship that requires love to be the foundation is that between a husband and a wife or between a parent and a child. But I beg to differ. I believe that true friendships are also built on the foundation of love, and therefore are able to withstand all kinds of test, including the test of time. With this, I conclude my article.
Copyright by Chan Hui Li Annie
Can Friendships Last for a Lifetime?
What is Friendship?
Yesterday I had accidentally stumbled across a programme in an FM Radio, in which I came to know that 2 nd August, was a ‘Friendship Day’. Fans opted for their favorite songs which highlighted the friendship. Perhaps, we have such a day to remind ourselves on the value of friendship.
Then I came to the real question. What is friendship? In fact it requires an elaborate and comprehensive definition. Friendship is an unique relationship based on mutual understanding traversing the barriers of sex, race, color, caste, religion, age, nation or country.
There is a proverb ‘familiarity breeds contempt’.But in my opinion familiarity breeds friendship.In the modern day context, especially in the online, building a network of friendship is to facilitate and widen your contacts, so as to build up your business and to increase your income. In the process we actually create a net work of like minded people or the people who have similar interests.
Suppose, if you are interested in writing articles, blogs, poems and short stories, you are in search of people who have similar interests. In other words, we can say that while love is blind, friendship is not. It has eyes. Writers befriend writers, poets befriend poets, doctors befriend doctors, engineers befriend engineers and teachers befriend teachers and so on, which means friendship emanates between the like minded people, who have similar interest and knowledge. In fact such friendships have solid base and foundation.
Sometimes, friendship that arises between a boy and a girl naturally blossoms into love that ultimately leads to a marital relationship.
In the modern days, friendship in its perverted form turns into a gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual marriages amidst controversies. The basis of such perverted form of relationship is nothing but sex.
But when you analyze friendship a little more deeper, friendship apart from being mutual, in its ideal form, it is caring; it is sharing, it is understanding; it is selfless, it is reciprocal; it is devotion for the cause of others.
Friendship evokes friendship; it creates a congenial and harmonious atmosphere and relationship between friends.
The foremost value of friendship is that it civilizes the human beings and raises their level of relationship to a higher plane.
Apart from that it is the friendship that plays a vital role in regulating the relationship of countries in the world.
Let us cherish, let us build up, let us value and let us commemorate friendship in the true sense of the word !
Easy Ways to Make Friends Easily with Free Friendship Dating Site
A free friendship dating site is a blessing in disguise for many people who have not found any success with speed dating sites or romantic dating sites or other varieties of internet dating sites.
Free of Cost Friendship Website
The main advantage of hooking up with a free friendship dating site is that firstly, the registration process is free and you can create your account and search through the data base absolutely free of cost.
In a reputed friendship site where registration is 100% free (though you have to upgrade and become a paid member to send messages) you can create a peppy profile, interact with a huge member base and take a look at their profiles, indulge in blogging sessions, send emails and chats and instant messages etc. In short you will get to enjoy all the features of a paid online dating service or friendship site without having to pay anything!
Set Your Own Pace for Relaxed Friendship Dating
A free friendship dating site will allow you to proceed in the dating game at your own comfortable pace without hurrying you on. And these friendship websites are very easy to use and won’t leave you confused through intricacies that are difficult to comprehend.
All that you need to do to meet men online or meet ladies online and make friends online free is to sign up, create your profile, search through or browse through hundreds of member profiles, send friend requests to those you like or accept friend requests from members if you like their profile and you can simply start scrapping them or leave behind comments in their diaries or scrapbooks to carry on with the friendship. You can use smileys or graphics or instant messages as conversation starters.
And these friendship websites are pretty flexible with time. You don’t run the fear of getting unsubscribed after 3 months or 6 months due to non payment of fees. There is no membership deadline as such and most people remain loyal subscribers of a good and trusted friendship site for years and years, taking their own time to judge people or meet more new people. There is no attached rider like expiry of membership period and you can make as many new friends as you like for 4 years or 10 years.
Wider Scope and Larger Database to Choose Friends from
In a free friendship site, it is possible to meet people from all walks of life, from all ethnicities, from all religious or communal groups and you have the scope to explore your options from a larger database of members as maximum numbers of people prefer to join a free friendship site.