What is friendship?
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Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection/feelings between people. It is the condition of being friends or in good terms.
Who is a friend?
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A friend is a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, one exclusive of sexual or family relations. Friend is someone who is thoughtful, kind, caring, loving, appreciation, understanding, optimistic, resourceful and helpful. A friend is someone who you can depend on when things go worst. A friend is someone you have fun with, someone you care about and someone you love. A friend is someone you can tell secrets to.
Types of Friends
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People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. The way or manner each friend presents himself or acts towards you will let you know the kind of friend he is. Basically, there are three types of friends:
*Friends for a reason
*Friends for a season
*Friends for a life time
Friends for a reason.
People don't just cross our path and we don't just cross people's path, we meet everyone for a reason. When someone is in our life for a REASON. . . It is usually to meet a need we have previously expressed. They have come to assist us through a difficulty, give solution to our problem, to provide us with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually, to guide us. They are like a Godsent, and they truly are.
After the previously expressed need or demand has been met, then, in a blink of an eye they are gone, they have completed their mission or task.
Without any bad act on our side, or at an inappropriate time, a friend for a reason will say or do something that will bring the relationship to an end.
They may die, walk away or they act up and force us to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our request had been granted, our desire fulfilled, their work is done and are no more needed.
In our life, we may have met someone who has acted as a teacher or tutor, a mentor such as a teacher in school or a lecturer at University or someone we know very well or close to us that we once looked up to. People like this may have passed down their wisdom, experience, giving us lots of valuable advice to take with us on our journey towards happiness, through difficulties, hustle, hard times and through life.
These people are often excellent at solving problems that younger people do not have an understanding of or find difficult to solve. Even years after they are no longer in our life, we still think about them with a smile on
our face.
Friends for a season.
Life is change and change is constant just as season changes. It’s incredibly good and refreshing to embrace and accept this change and love everything that happened and that was learned. But also love that we have changed and are moving on despite how difficult things are.
When people come into our life for a SEASON, it is because it is our time to share, increase, multiple, move to another stage or level, grow, or learn, just as plants grow during seasons that each grows.
Friendships increase and friendships decrease or fade. Sometimes, people walk out of our life loudly, or sometimes they walk out gradually. It’s sad, to know that this person who we have shared a special relationship with is gone. And awkward to know that our friendship was, indeed, a season in our life.
Friends for a life time
Lifetime friends teach us a lifetime of lessons that will never fade away or be forgotten; those things we must build upon in order to have a solid, emotional, physical and spiritual, financial, social, foundation.
Lifetime friends aren’t always around or always there, but there have been so many reasons, times and seasons we’ve shared together.
Our reason and season friend leave lifetime impacts in our life and these impacts do not fade away. Our duty is to accept the lesson and experiences learnt from our reason and season friend,and put what we have learnt to use in all other relationships, aspects and areas of our life.
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