Friendship 1 Friendship clicks
when we relate to one another’s personality and there is recognition of bonding
based on common likes and dislikes, interests, pursuits and passion.
2 A mature friendship is one where you know your friend inside out and
accept him or her with all the contradictions and deviations that you earlier
fail to notice. A mature friendship is a genuine friendship and here there is a
shared sense of caring, concern, desire to grow and let grow and a hope that
everything good happens in life to you as well as your buddy. True, mature and
genuine friendship does not happen just like that. It needs working and it needs
mutual faith and trust based on selfless action, shared thoughts and feelings,
and acceptance of the friend without judgment and criticism. A true, mature and
genuine friendship needs a relationship which is built over time, by knowing
each other more closely over shared time spent, shared memories, participation
in each other’s growth and prosperity as well as being available to each other
in hard times. 3 With trust you start sharing your inner most
secrets and feelings with your friend who is true. Trust and its continuous
reinforcement from both the side leads to faithfulness and loyalty. On the other
hand betrayal of trust can lead to the culmination of the friendship in a very
negative way with lot of hard feelings and loneliness. Many of the important
reasons of loss of trust is backbiting, negative thoughts and cheating on one
another. 4 To nurture this delicate balance the need is to have
a set of accountability factors that becomes essential for the survival of the
friendship. True friends accept the fact that this world is not perfect and they
overcome small and little misunderstandings, deviations and contradictions that
crop up among them. They have a policy of living the life positively and so
forgiving one another is accepted as part of the natural code of
friendship. 5 We need to understand that genuine, mature and
true friendship is supportive in nature and comes into real light in hard
pressed times. These are the times when the true value, dependence and strength
of a genuine friend are tested. A true friendship which passes the fire of
troubled time develops into a bonding where unconditional love flows from one to
another. Such true friends are hard to come by but once you have them most of
the time they become your life time buddies. A. A friendship
evolves overtime. B. We understand what true friendship
is. C. True relationship is built on mutual trust.
D. True friendship involves relationship. E. We shall
keep a balance. F. Genuine friendship survives hard
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