Greetings!
As we all know that no one can live alone as no one is an island, we should also know that relationship is one major pillar of life as without relationship, humans would have been worthless but because of the existence of human relationship, life has become meaningful to all.
Having said this, I would move down to the prompt which is about, “friendship.” To me, one aspect of life that should not be taken for granted is friendship.
So far so good, one thing I have got to know about friendship is that it can make or mar us. Friendship can make us if we choose who we want to be friends with and vice versa.
Furthermore, with my little experience about friendship, I have seen how and where friendship makes people and otherwise.
And even without going too far, I'm a living testament to how friendship has made people and at the same time, mar people.
Some time ago, a friend of mine came to my aid when I was in trouble. Then, I had lost all my investments due to a partnership business with another friend of mine who duped me and ran away, but as fortune would smile on me, another friend of mine from another angle, a friend not known to the one that duped me came to my aid by raising fund for me to start all over again a new life and that's how i was able to escape frustration and depression and become a better today.
Although these two experiences of mine might be short, what I experienced back then were two different cases from two different people in which one was good and the other was bad.
So, ever since then, I no longer leave my chosen friendship to fate. Now I now have a simple criteria for choosing my friends and these criteria are just two which are discipline and loyalty.
So, whenever I want to start a friendship with anyone, the first thing I look for in that person is how disciplined the person is. Also, there's this loyalty test I used to give to those people I look forward to making friends with. Although this test is not an obvious one, it's best known to me.
Furthermore, if anyone would be my friend, then such a person must pass these two tests of discipline and loyalty as I believed that a disciplined and loyal person would never look for my downfall or even betrayed me as that one who betrayed and duped me of my trust in him.
Although there's no perfect person on earth, at least these measures have really helped me and seriously, I have been able to sieve the bad ones from the good ones.
In conclusion, I no longer use fate to determine who my friends would be, now, I use discipline and loyalty and my major way of selecting who to be friends with.
Thanks for reading.
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