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Articles: My Thoughts | Friendship
- Ms. kiran A
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I recommend at least three very close friends. It is great if your spouse is one of them, but then I might recommend four. (Five is probably too many to take good care of.) Closest friends are those you can be yourself with, not necessarily those you do things with. Certainly, you do things with your closest friends, but those activities are not the main attraction -- the friend is. (With companions, on the other hand, the activity is the primary thing.)
Close friends are those who have proven to be very interested in your welfare and who want you to be very interested in their welfare. Close friends are those who would be thrilled to be of use to you in a crisis, even if that difficulty arose at 3 in the morning. Close friends give you loyalty and hold confidences. And they want and need your loyalty and confidentiality also.
Close friends are to be helpful to you. So make sure that you do not pick carbon copies of yourself. Those kinds of friends cannot be of much help. Variety in close friends is vital. You and your friends should be building one another up – that’s the main purpose of a close friendship
SELECTING POTENTIAL FRIENDS
Intimate friendships heal. You want close friends, not easy relationships. Relationships based on easy acquisition usually don’t last, fail and hurt. Loneliness is increased.
Most people think that finding good friends will be easy. Most likely it will not. It takes time to find friends you can count on for years and years to come. People want to find good friends from the pool of people who naturally cross their path. But that will work only if your path produces the kind of people you are looking for.
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