Fair weather friends
By lumpkins2000
@lumpkins2000 (1)
United States
9 responses
@itshalom (355)
• Singapore
20 Feb 09
Yes, by introducing one as a friend we got to know the person well to label them as friend. Thanks for pointing it out. But could we label friends as such that we have years of friendship and truly understand them rather than their help given to us before we classify them as our friends.
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@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I believe there are probably different ways to classify a friendship. A co-worker is one thing but that is at work. You can form a good friendship possibly on the outside of work but that is up to you.
There are some different ways of labeling a friend it all depends on how you feel about certain people.
Sometimes you just have to be a friend to get a friend.
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@forslahiri (1042)
• India
20 Feb 09
Hi,
Colleagues,peer,subordinate,boss will turn into 'Friend' only thro'ACID-TEST.Otherwise even Ur bf,gf,and all above are only fair-weather-selfish-associates!
=Lahiri,Kolkata,India.
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@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
20 Feb 09
Well it seems you have a personal point of view on the idea of friends and associates. I personally would like to keep my private business to myself and not make too many friends in the work place.
Co-workers could possibly make good friends outside of work but that might not always be good practice.
Fair weather friends are just that. They could be associates or friends that you already have outside of the work area.
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@nanayangel (7879)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
Hi there Lumpkins!
You're right. I think that people have different point of view about how a friend should be. Someone may think that someone who spends a lot of time with them is already a friend and some may only consider one as a friend to the true essence of the word.
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@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
21 Feb 09
I once with a woman who thought the same thing. Actually, we did become friends, at and away from work. When I left the job, we still met each other and talked, we helped each other out when one needed it. We were friends, co workers, associates for five years. Suddenly, she stopped calling me, and now I do not know how to get in touch with her. I guess that was a fair weather friendship.
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@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I know how it is to deal with fair weather friends. It would be nice to depend on someone all of the time and not just some of the time. I think a good friend is there for you when you need them and doesn't complain.
I have tried to be a good friend but can't seem to maintain friendships because either I move too much to different houses and areas or I just didn't keep the lines of communication open enough.
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@puddytat101 (657)
• United States
21 Feb 09
Why do you say that? I don't expect all that stuff from any of my friends! If you are referring to strictly platonic employee relations, then it would depend on the nature of the job and what exactly those job duties entail.
@kbmsaylor (94)
• United States
23 Feb 09
well i have a best friend that i met thru work. now granted we don't hang out after work hours, for such reasons that she likes to go out and drink with her man on the weekends, and we are just not that into going to bars. but she is one of my good friends whom of which i can go to about anything, and trust her more than some people that i know. she would do anything to help me out, and she accepts me for me. that is what makes her a true friend, even though she is a co-worker.
