Saturday, 9 January 2016

Delineating Friendships

“A man is known by the company he keeps.”
Probably one of the most commonly told and heard statements to be ever quoted around the globe, when the topic friendship is brought under discussion. Every word of it is indeed as true as it is possible. If one were to define friends in the briefest way possible the simplest and most comprehensive definition of this one word that could be offered would definitely be, the family we choose.
The first person you look around for in all times of thick and thin, happiness and sorrow, achievement or loss, pain and agony or mere celebration is indeed your friend. The one person you believe would never walk away, even if the whole world turned their backs towards you. It is a matter of basic mutual understanding that causes us to blindly trust this person who we call our friend, such that we consider them the rightfully chosen person to be aware of everything and anything about us, our past, present or future. We might choose to conceal something from the entire world but there is and will always be an unspoken word of agreement between us to allow the other to access all our deepest darkest secrets, and sometimes even those shades of our personality that we don’t choose to reveal in front of many apart from a few chosen ones. That sense of satisfaction of being accompanied by someone with whom sharing hours of silence won’t be a problem is only reserved for this one person. The person who knows exactly when we need to be cheered up, when we require someone to boost our confidence, when we need the reassurance of being valuable to someone else and when we need a shoulder to rest on and take a break from the world.
All this and much more correctly sums up one of the most valued relationship of our lives, friendship. The most flawless and demanding yet dependable relationship that is pure from all sorts of evil intentions. The one relationship where it’s not the mind that works to win someone’s heart but the heart decides who it is comfortable being around with. Ever since this world came into being man has known to make friends and it can be said without even a hint of doubt that we always tend to choose those as our friends who mirror our personalities, interests and habits. Of course differences exist in every two personalities but it is friendship that causes us to unite with the people we find things most common with.
I believe true friendships speak more about a person’s personality then what he/she ever be able to express on their own. You choose to be with those whose traits you appreciate, those who you find honest, just and above all the ones with a heart of gold. Your views on the people you like to have around yourself are themselves expressed without you having to say a word about your thoughts.

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