Friends and Friendship

Friendship. Can you imagine what life would be without it? Who would we hang out in this world without it? Who would we tell about our private secrets? Who would we turn to if there is no friend? Who would we call using our valuable phones if there is no friend? Without friends the world would be a pretty lonely place. Although friends and friendship mean different things to different people, most people realize that friends are quiet important in life. So important that poets and even presidents have written articles on the subject of friendship.

What matters is what we think of when we hear the word “friend”. Our own personal definition of friendship has a lot to do with the kind of friend we are. If we believe the quality goes hand in hand with friendship, we’re probably a loyal friend our self. If we believe a friend is someone who’ll go out of their way for us, it’s likely that we’d also go out of our way for friends.

Friends take on a special significance about the time that we become a teen. When we were a child, we most likely looked to our mom or dad for the support we needed and to answer any questions we had. Although we may have had disagreements with our parents at times, their ideas probably matched up with ours quite nicely sometimes, or rather ours matched up with theirs sometimes. Part of growing up involves learning to form ideas and opinions of our own. As we go about the process of discovering the kind of person we are and what we want to be, it’s only natural that we look to our friends more than our parents for similarities in feelings. Our friends are making the same discoveries that we do. They may also be facing the same kind of problems that pressure them. Naturally, we feel that our friends are in a better position rather than the way that our parents use understand. Surely our parents were our age once, but that was decades ago. Besides, times have changed.

Friends play a vital role in our life. They help us make the shift from complete dependence on our parents to independence, in a very real sense, we and our friends are preparing for our future as adults when we’ll be interacting more frequently with people outside of our family. One, who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. But the truths we have to believe is true friends are so unique in this world. And true friends are hard to find and hard to maintain.