What is Friendship? | Who is a Friend? | Is Everyone You Talk to your Friend?

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Overtime, I have been with people that argue out the fact that "this person is only my colleague, we are not friends" or "she's my classmate, everything ends in the classroom, it's not that deep, we are not friends" or when someone is trying to make an enquiry and says something like "Did you say you got this bag from your friend whose shop is down the road?" and you get a reply like "that girl? We just talk and hang out, we are not friends."

This kind of statements have got me thinking about what friendship really entails. Does it mean you are not friends with someone even if you do things together, hang out at your favorite sports, play video games together and so on. Is there a line someone must cross in other to get promoted into the friend zone?

Who is a friend?

A friend is someone you love and who loves you, someone you respect and who respects you, someone whom you trust and who trusts you. A friend is honest and makes you want to be honest, too. A friend is loyal.

A friend is someone who is happy to spend time with you doing absolutely nothing at all; someone who doesn't mind driving you on stupid errands, who will get up at midnight just because you want to go on an adventure, and who doesn’t have to talk to communicate with you.

A friend is someone who not only doesn't care if you're ugly or boring, but doesn't even think about it... source

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What is friendship?

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. source

A friend is that person that would not feel comfortable when you are not comfortable ; a friend stays with you when it's sweet and when it's bitter. A friend stays, motivate and care for you when no one is with you, when everyone do not believe in your dreams and when there is no one to care for your needs.

I feel that answers the streams of question in the opening lines. It is not everyone that is worthy to be addressed as our friends - some are just colleagues, church members, gym mate, neighbors etc. They become friends when they can do anything for you, no matter the condition, in the rain and in the sun.

Friends are the reason so many people are still standing tall today and "friends" are the reason so many great minds have been destroyed, shattered and forgotten today. You will definitely come out strong from a trying time if you have a good friend around you and not the ones that "lick only the hands of oil and not blood". There are very few good friends out there and you should see yourself as a lucky person if you have even just one good friend around you.

I'm a living testimony of the benefits of having good friends. I'm sure a lot of people reading this can also talk about how friends have been of help in their academics, finances, relationship, marriage and spiritual life.

You tend to see some signs that a person is not your friend when you notice it is looking like a give and take situation. He or she doesn't do things for you with a plain heart rather they keep expecting you to do something in return. Some others also became friends with you because of all that they will benefit from you - money, experience, secrets etc.

Friends and friendship is important to our existence. Be a good friend to someone TODAY.

Thank you for your time lovelies.

The post is originally written by me 💕@debbie-ese💕

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