FRIENDS

Friendship is definitely one of the most indispensable experiences of life . If you ask anyone around
you if they have friends, surely their response will be one of shocked incredulity due to the askers
ignorance of a universal truth : everyone has friends. Since it is a genetic predisposition for us to
make friends, we know all too well the importance to making friends.
Friends are important for several reasons. Firstly,they provide the kind of emotional support
that family cannot give during our turbulent growing-up years. During this time , we often feel that
the family cannot fully understand when we ga through. Friends of our age are the usual recourse
that we have when encountering problems in our friendships or studies. Even after we have
graduated into adulthood,friends still prove to be powerful sources of emotional support . They
listen to our grievances and laugh with us at the foibles of like . This is evindent ehen they can help
us in our most troubled times by simply listening or even providing companionship. Some of the best
memories of life are those spent in the first people we practise our social interaction skill on the
most certainly they refine such abilities.
We make friends first and foremost in the natural way, that is when we meet new people.
By a look or smile or even greeting , we open the door to friends. Of course, there are people who
are painfully shy. But just one party making the frist move to break the ice is good enough. Friends
are also made through introductions by existing ones. However making friends is such aprevalent
activity in life that it is important to be wary. Some people become our friends merely because the
made had made her acquaintance only because the person had wanted to tap her knowledge on a
difficult subject before the examinations.
After the examinations, the person completely broke off the friendship without a word. It
was a sobering experience for us all, for people can have ulterior motives when courting our
friendship.
Another important consideration is the compatibibility of our friends with us. After all, it is
important that we share common interests rather than force ourselves to adopt attitudes or
preference that are not our own. If friendship becomes for too contrived , it is unlikely to last long.
As such, it is essential that we be honest with ourselves and other people in making friends.
Making friends can be one of the rewarding experience in life. But too rosy an expectation of
friendship can be dangerous as it many cause disillusion and great unhappiness. Like every other
experiences in life, one must always be ready to take the good with the bad.