What are friends? Reflections on a given topic

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

"A friend in need is a friend" is a famous Russian proverb. But it often happens in life that a complete stranger helps in trouble, and the one who called himself a "friend" modestly stays away, not even trying to do anything. How to act in such cases? How to protect yourself from such, by and large, useless people?

For this, first of all, you need to have a clear idea of what friends are and what the noble word "friendship" means in general. If you look in any of the explanatory dictionaries, you can find the following meaning:

"Friendship is a relationship between two or more people based on mutual trust, affection and common interests."

This is not quite an accurate concept, suitable only for defining people who have to deal with in numerous social networks or in any clubs. It is not able to fully reveal all aspects of such a high relationship. Forin order to fully understand what friends are, you will have to take a deep enough look at life and look as critically as possible at the people who surround us.

Someone of the great people wrote that true friendship is not only something in common. True friendship is something more, which implies not only mutual respect and affection, but also certain duties towards each other, selflessness and readiness to always and under any circumstances provide support.

Only close friends do this. The rest, as it was written above, prefer to stay on the sidelines, expressing only some semblance of sympathy. Therefore, it is generally accepted that absolutely all new friends should undergo a kind of "strength test" of the existing relationship. This is where a lot of incomprehensible situations arise, because if a "friend" in the event of a force majeure situation got off with only advice, and did not offer material (or other significant) assistance, should this mean that in fact such a person is not a friend at all ? Should you take his side and understand him like real friends do, or should he be driven away from yourself as soon as possible?

From here came the classification of new acquaintances into "just friends", "best (or close) friends" and others. But in this case, the answer to the question "what are friends" takes on a completely obscene character. It turns out that a friend is a person who can or cannot provideany service in case of unforeseen circumstances. Somehow it all sounds low, although it is quite in the spirit of modernity - in the modern world you have to pay for everything …

What are friends? Is it worth trusting everyone you meet who claims to be a friend? Does every person after that become one? In fact, all these questions have neither a clear answer nor a clear interpretation. One cannot become a friend just like that, because such a desire has arisen. Friendship is a much more complex feeling, which is akin to love, real, genuine. When you are ready to forgive your loved one for everything, no matter what he does, no matter what he says. When he wants to help for free, not expecting to receive anything in return, and not just because he has to do it. Friendship is a kind of manifestation of love. And love, as everyone knows, can only be understood when it can be felt.