Written by: Sunabi Pokharel - 2024024, Grade VIII
Posted on: 02 September, 2020
A state of mutual trust and support between people can be defined as friendship. People may think that it is a wonderful explanation of friendship in a few simple words but this is only a definition that I searched on google. Actually, friendship is something that cannot be defined in words. It is a feeling, a sense of emotion we share with someone. A friend does not necessarily have to be a classmate or a person similar to your age. A teacher, a brother, a sister, father, mother, uncle, aunt, tutor anybody can be a friend.
Well, people may have many perspectives about friends and friendship but in my perspective friendship is the state or ability to trust somebody without any hesitation and friends are those who stay with us in all our good and bad times. How do people become friends? Well, I don’t think reaching out to a person and saying let’s be friends will work out. When you trust someone with all your secrets, when you start saying literally everything to them, when you admire them with all your heart, when you start becoming loyal and sincere towards someone, the friendship begins from then and there. Friends are not those who only stay by your side when you are successful, friends are those who still stay by your side when you fail miserably in life. A true friend is not the person who listens to your funny stories; they are the one who listens to your problems and comes up with a solution.
Friendship is very important in every person's life. Sharing and expressing problems with friends helps to reduce stress and sharing is really important as a true friend might give a solution to your problems. It is scientifically proven that sharing problems with friends can reduce 70% of stress and can also make you relieved. One should be very careful while choosing friends. Some people might try to pursue you to become friends but they might be using you for their advantage. I am not saying this without any basis. I have had many so-called best friends in my life till now but I realized that more than 80 percent were using me for their advantage. I realized this very late. But there are some friends who are very loyal, kind, helpful and understanding of me. They have always supported and encouraged me to do better. Friendship is something that is very important in our lives and we should be very careful while choosing friends. I don’t mean to say that all the people might have wrong intentions. All people are not the same. Some people might be a really good friend but you might misjudge them and miss the opportunity of getting such a good friend. Choosing a correct friend is very important as it might affect your life and future. Lastly, I would like to say that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
