what is friendship?
By savanp
@savanp (498)
Japan
December 25, 2006 11:38pm CST
is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. This article focuses on the notion specific to interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis
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@dradelelassy (1208)
• United States
26 Dec 06
nowadays one is confused about friendship and friends,because what you think is friend after a while is not
your measures are so ideal
are there any can match your measurments?
@melinda1303 (36)
• Indonesia
26 Dec 06
friend ship means much.. to take and give it can't value with everithing.
@hashyjosh (19)
• India
27 Dec 06
as far as i hav understood it..it is the warm feeling of care and love by som 1 who is close to u and som1 which is alway there 4 u...and som1 to whome u always share ur every sentiments....that person is ur friend ....telling anything to him ,,u dont feel that what that person wil feel or think abt it.....in short friendhip is trust care and love.
@djbtol (5493)
• United States
27 Dec 06
Well, this social entity can always use another friend, as I have few. I have a natural ability to make people uncomfortable, and then they ignore me.
@thediesel (287)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
For me, friendship is being a family without blood relations.
@chiggmista (70)
• United States
27 Dec 06
i consider and friend sombody i hang out with not a school friend
@remaster74 (4064)
• Greece
26 Dec 06
Friendship is the selfish notion that people have to make other people to support them and hear them and help them. It's a tention that no one can escape, because it's very valuable to the human nature. It is mostly supportive to the psychological identity. The thing we all have to pay attention to, is to be good friends.
@praveenkumar06 (4077)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Dec 06
Friendship, as understood here, is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy. As such, friendship is undoubtedly central to our lives, in part because the special concern we have for our friends must have a place within a broader set of concerns, including moral concerns, and in part because our friends can help shape who we are as persons. Given this centrality, important questions arise concerning the justification of friendship and, in this context, whether it is permissible to “trade up” when someone new comes along, as well as concerning the possibility of reconciling the demands of friendship with the demands of morality in cases in which the two seem to conflic
@jatt187 (137)
• Canada
26 Dec 06
that is so much a part of you, that you feel alone just thinking about the thought of her not being there.that has so much that it is based on that nothing could ever dissolve or even threaten it.with whom you share so much history that one fight or misunderstanding rolls off nearly instantaneously,
because one issue is so insignificant, and could never come close to shattering the bond.that cannot always be explained, but only understood and cherished by the two people that share it.that mean so much to you, that you honestly believe you would stop studying for a final exam, break a date with your crush of five years, or risk being grounded just so you could be there to lend a shoulder to cry on, offer a hug, or spend three hours just sitting with her if that would make it at all better.that has lasted through ten years of your life, and is still growing.who you can talk to about something that happened when you...sigh.
@here4uall (77)
• Romania
26 Dec 06
yes....nice description about the "friendship" therm.....I will be more explicit so I would say that friendship inflicts respect,trust,suport,kindness....and of course....these things must last over the years....until the end of your life.this is true friendship for me
@ponppy (102)
• Nigeria
26 Dec 06
friendship base on trust,if i trust someone,then i will consider such as my friend,b'cos as a friend i believe you cannot harm or do something evil to me and to be friendship is love.
@amey_dev143 (483)
• India
26 Dec 06
I think this page is not enough for me to describe friendship.Well..if u want a single word for it then, friendship is life!
@asadahsan (723)
• Pakistan
26 Dec 06
well friendship is a feeling between two persons and it is diffrent then love and andy other relation and friendship is a feeling of love but not love a fried always with you everyone is with you or not but your friend willl always with you..anc care you support you ever...
@chaitrakrishnan (181)
• India
26 Dec 06
FRIENDSHIP IS A PRICELESS GIFT THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT OR SOLD BUT ITS VALUE IS FAR GREATER THAN THE MOUNTAIN MADE OF GOLD FOR GOLD IS COLD & LIFELESS IT CAN NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR & IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE IT IS POWER LESS 2 CHEER--IT HAS NO EARS 2 LISTEN NOR HEART 2 UNDERSTAND IT CANNOT BRING U CONFORT OR REACH OUT A HELPING HAND SO WHEN U ASK GOD FOR A GIFT BE THANKFUL IF HE SENDS NOT DIAMONDS, PEARLS OR RICHES BUT THE LOVE OF REAL TRUE FRIENDS NEVER ENDS.......
@danish160 (250)
• Pakistan
26 Dec 06
I think friendship is a very special relationship between two people which is helpful when you wnat to share your hapiness and sorrows.
@suchetan230044 (618)
• India
26 Dec 06
friendship is really an unexpected unexplained phenomenon.generally people with same tastes and haveing same thoughts and ideas become good friends.friendhip is trust belief and co-operation between two or more persons who are more or less similar in their tastes and habit.in modern day world true friendship is very rare.but still as long as trust and co-operation exist there is got to be a phenomenon called friendship.however alone a person is he has to have some friends.we can't live without friends and they are an inevitable part of our life.friendship is much more than the relation of love.
@saiearnsmoney (204)
• India
26 Dec 06
Fish said to water " U cant see my tears because I am in th water.Water Replied " I can feel ur tears because u are in my heart"Thats Friendship
When u pass beside me, my heart beats pumps 1000 times fater due to happines in past..Thats friendship...
@clark16 (375)
• Philippines
26 Dec 06
Friendship is a relationship among people, Friends is someone you can count on and someone who will never fight back over you. He is ready for anything even if its against his needs. He is the one who is ready to offer you everything he has including his time and patience.
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