<p>“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare, false friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.”<br /><br /></p>.<p>Indeed, friendship is nowadays one of the most overrated of all relationships, with everyone worth their salt eager to have a take on what it is to have a good, valid and viable friendship with another human being. This piece hopes to zero in on not just what goes to make a ‘relationship’, but what a ‘friendship’ between any two human beings (not necessarily of the opposite gender) entails.<br /><br />Does true friendship mean two girls having endless hordes of wealth, persons with excessively good looks or persons with in a lot of intelligence and talent? No, not necessarily, because not uncommonly, it is usually the ordinary, trite and mundane who make stronger bonds of friendship than those who are excessively gifted, for the latter are usually always gauging motives of why people are attracted to them.<br /><br />True friendship is a promise that emerges unsullied from the heart and dictated by the yearnings of the soul. True friendship is caring for another human being intrinsically, sincerely and from the bottom of one’s heart, with no traces of hidden motives. True friendship is unconditional, for it is not the one spewed forth by “fair weather friends” who will be around only when conditions and circumstances are favourable. Instead, it is one where one stands by the friend in good times and bad even when the friend is consumed with misfortune. <br /><br />How true is the saying, “In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”<br /><br />Since true friendship is rare and elusive, if one feels one has a true friend, who reflects you like a mirror, and one who will not desert you come what may, it is imperative that you hang on to this friend since true friendship is not gifted to everyone. A story goes that George Bernard Shaw gave Winston Churchill two tickets for his play and said, “Here is one for you and one for your friend, If you have one.” Churchill was so taken back and furious at Shaw’s sarcasm and lack of finesse and decorum that he shot back, “I’ll take two tickets for the second show –If there is one”!! <br /><br />In true friendship, one should be magnanimous and large-hearted enough to overlook trivialities and always see the bigger picture. One should keep the misunderstandings within limits and not allow it to snowball into a major altercation, which is impossible to retrieve. <br /><br /> How true is the saying “The best way to find a good friend is to be one.”</p>
<p>“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare, false friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.”<br /><br /></p>.<p>Indeed, friendship is nowadays one of the most overrated of all relationships, with everyone worth their salt eager to have a take on what it is to have a good, valid and viable friendship with another human being. This piece hopes to zero in on not just what goes to make a ‘relationship’, but what a ‘friendship’ between any two human beings (not necessarily of the opposite gender) entails.<br /><br />Does true friendship mean two girls having endless hordes of wealth, persons with excessively good looks or persons with in a lot of intelligence and talent? No, not necessarily, because not uncommonly, it is usually the ordinary, trite and mundane who make stronger bonds of friendship than those who are excessively gifted, for the latter are usually always gauging motives of why people are attracted to them.<br /><br />True friendship is a promise that emerges unsullied from the heart and dictated by the yearnings of the soul. True friendship is caring for another human being intrinsically, sincerely and from the bottom of one’s heart, with no traces of hidden motives. True friendship is unconditional, for it is not the one spewed forth by “fair weather friends” who will be around only when conditions and circumstances are favourable. Instead, it is one where one stands by the friend in good times and bad even when the friend is consumed with misfortune. <br /><br />How true is the saying, “In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”<br /><br />Since true friendship is rare and elusive, if one feels one has a true friend, who reflects you like a mirror, and one who will not desert you come what may, it is imperative that you hang on to this friend since true friendship is not gifted to everyone. A story goes that George Bernard Shaw gave Winston Churchill two tickets for his play and said, “Here is one for you and one for your friend, If you have one.” Churchill was so taken back and furious at Shaw’s sarcasm and lack of finesse and decorum that he shot back, “I’ll take two tickets for the second show –If there is one”!! <br /><br />In true friendship, one should be magnanimous and large-hearted enough to overlook trivialities and always see the bigger picture. One should keep the misunderstandings within limits and not allow it to snowball into a major altercation, which is impossible to retrieve. <br /><br /> How true is the saying “The best way to find a good friend is to be one.”</p>
