"Friendship... is not something you learn at school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
When I am writing this presentation, it is 2nd of May and it is my friend’s birthday. Her
name is Klaudyna and she was my inspiration to choose this topic.
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Everyone knows that friendship is an essential
ingredient to lead a happy and successful life. Real friendship
is a blessing. Friends are
those people who do not have to be in our life, like a family, but they choose
us to spend their time with. They make us feel special. You can say that lovers
do the same thing, but do they?
In my opinion a sensual
relationship is less important than friendship. We live in times when divorces
happen so fast and so often. We change our partners like a pair of gloves. But
we choose our friends carefully. We have only a few
of them and we try to keep them close. True friendships stay with us for a
lifetime. They are not influenced by distance or time. Like C.S. Lewis said: “Friendship… has no survival value;
rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Why? Why do you think friendship is
so important?
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I think that true friendship is so
precious because we can be ourselves. A friend does not care about your
background, your income, your race or profession. This type of love ignores your
flaws. A friend is a companion in our failures more than in our triumphs. This
special person accepts you and helps you become the best version of you. A
true friend will never do anything to harm you and he will never let you down. However,
I guess that the ultimate purpose of friendship is not that we have to improve
ourselves but that we have the privilege of having a devoted and caring partner
during this insane journey through life.
And the most important and beautiful
thing in friendship is that it cannot be imposed on anyone in this world. It is
no one’s duty to be my friend and I have no duty to be anyone else’s friends.
No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is not mandatory. We can live
without it as we can live without art or philosophy, but what kind of life
would it be?
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Comments
However, friendships differ because people are vary, too, and each of them needs something else. It's extremely hard to define a 'good friendship' - some people spend all their free time with their best friend, others may not meet for a few months and still be greatest friends.
I can't imagine my life without my best friends, it would be extremely dull and sad.
As usual I agree with Patrycja, I have a couple of really close friends and I see some of them almost every day and some I don't see often but we still stay in touch and are extremely close.
I think that I'm on that life stage when I don't think that it's possible to keep having one best friend for the whole lifetime. People are appearing in our live, they stay for some time and go - I think that I've accepted that course of events. I fully disagree with the statement that nowadays we're changing our parters like gloves - when it comes to me, friends are constantly changing but the girlfriend remains the same (who is by the way kind of my best friend at the same time, so it discredits a little bit what I've said earlier :)). I think that now people are too selfish to care about others as much as it was years ago and now friendship means much less than it used to.
I am not a very sociable person, so I don't have many close friends. I agree wih Paulina that a friendship with your partner is one of the most important things that build a healthy and happy relationship. I am always surprised when I find out that someone is with someone just for the looks or for the money. Or even if they are emotionally engaged, they cannot discuss freely about everything. And the relationship ends up being talked through with your girlfriends over coffee without the knowledge of your partner. I think that the best feeling about friendship is feeling at home. You may wear whatever you please, talk about anything you want and still you feel comfortable without this need of being perfect and happy on the outside. I guess everyone has this kind of feeling with their friends and in my opinion this is what everybody should look for in a relationship.
I really like this quote that "friends become our chosen family". This is very true as they are people that we choose to love and not the ones that we are obliged to love no matter what. The greatest thing is that we WANT to do this.
My favorite TV series about friendship is “The Big Bang Theory” and “Gossip Girl”. And my favorite movie about friendship is “Harry Potter” :D
in my opinion I am a kind of person that can't life alone.
We can see the difference of friendship with people we know. The relation with each person is unique. Sometimes people look for long talks about everything from recent activities but some for talks about complicated situations or looking for opinion in difficult topics.
I'm not very sociable, so I have only a few close friends, but I really trust them and I would never want to exchange them for anyone else. I simply can't imagine a world without them. We may not see each other very often, but we keep in touch thanks to the Internet. When we do meet I'm the happiest person ever.
I agree that eith best firends you always have this feeling that even though you havn't seen tehm for a long time and you meet at last it's like they never left. And Internet is such a great tool for maintaining contact....
Friendship is really important as you wrote. It helps us to develop, to show our mistakes before others would notice or prevent them to happen.
Definitely life without it wouldn't be... life. Just some kind of existence.
True friendship is really important and a treasure to hold onto. It's just easier and more fun fighting with the world on a daily basis with your mates :)
That's one of the reasons why there are so many divorces. People don't understand that the fact that a person is simply attractive for you doesn't mean that you should marry that person. You need to get to know your partner very well and accept their flaws - just like in friendship. In fact true love has every element of friendship and much more. I'm not saying that the sensual part is unimportant, just that it's not enough to form a lasting relationship.
This topic reminds me another saying "True friends meet in poverty". I became convinced of this, when I found myself in difficult situation. Me and my ex best friend were unseparable. One day she dissapointed me, when I needed her - that's why I connoted that quotation. Another thing is that friend should be glad of your happiness or success, generally jealousy destroys every relation.
friends. In my opinion only if you grow up with someone or go through hard time(war etc.) you have a strong enogh foundation to become friends for life.
The great thing about true friendship is that it doesn't matter if you don't see your friend for a long time, thre's always something to talk about.
Additionaly, I think that there is no real love without friendship.
I have a few friends whom I know since childhood and with whom I experienced the best moments of my life :)
Most women don’t know this... but even if a man is attracted to you or even says he loves you...
...chances are he still feels something is missing.
Because there is a secret, emotional need hidden within his heart that he craves more than anything.
And in most cases, is not being met.
The problem is, if it’s not being met, his attention will inevitably wander until he finds a woman who can give it to him.
Maybe one in a thousand women knows how to do this instinctively, and they usually rise to unbelievable levels of influence and fame.
But most women, or men for that matter, don’t even know it exists.
On the other hand, when you have this 1 simple secret...
You won’t believe the shocking effect you have on the men in your life.
Here’s a video I discovered that shows you exactly what I’m talking about:
Here’s how: ==> He’ll give his heart to the first woman who does THIS... ]
Best,
Ana
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