Genuine Friend There are some
essential characteristics of a genuine friend and friendship.
As mentioned before without trust and respect for each other no true friendship
can develop. Real and true friendship involves freedom of
choice, 1 , truth, and forgiveness.
There is acceptance of the person with all the good and bad that holds within a
personality. There is an attitude of living the life positively and therefore
forgetting and forgiving minor deviations and 2
. Real friendship looks at the heart, not just
the "packaging. " Genuine friendship loves for love’s sake, not just for what it
can get in return. This can happen only when the bonding of friendship has
3 from past experiences which where
mutually beneficial and helpful in the most troubled times. This helps the
relationship to evolve above the superficialities. True
friendship is both 4 and exciting. It
risks, it overlooks faults, and it loves unconditionally, but it also involves
being truthful, even though it may hurt. As mentioned before, testing times come
and the strength of a relationship is tested during these hard times. Once you
5 these testing times, the relation
evolves into a higher plane where you can openly communicate the truth and even
hard truths 6 the feeling of any
animosity. Genuine friendship, also called "agape" love, comes
from the God. This is something of a life’s bonding and is akin to our bending
with life or the higher powers of nature itself. Relationships
in real life involve different levels of friendships, and that’s okay. But
humans are designed by 7 for lasting
rela tionships. The idea is to always evolve and grow in friendship and try to
reach the 8 stage of a
friendship. True relationship and friendship 9 and overcomes the superficialities of vague
empty relationships which are mostly 10 and manipulative in nature. Establishing a connect and
order of accountability and responsibility is very important as it’s harder to
make amends with an offended friend. A. contradictions
B. accountability C. nature
D. transcends E. challenging
F. overcome G. highest
H. purpose
I. resulted J. without
K. exploitive L. forgive