THE JOY OF GOOD FRIENDSHIP.
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Friendship is the greatest
possession of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy. It is
different to love, it can grow into love, or it can become a whole special
relationship of its own.
Francis Bacon quoted, “Friendship doubles joy and cuts grief in half.”
A lot of persons would say, “who
friendship help”?
Here is my response;
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friendship is the sweetest gifts
from God. If you have that one awesome friend, you would have a better
understanding of what I am talking about.
The “catching up” with an old
friend – reminiscing of sweet old memories.
The belly roaring laughter, and
acting like a kid again
Not worrying about your life’s
problems, but focusing on that moment, the positive benefits you already have
in life.
Nothing in this world can be
compared to these moments. Absolutely nothing!
A friend accepts you the way you
are. Friendship doesn’t care how rich you are or where you come from.
Elbert Hubbard quoted, “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
A friend is never judgmental.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quoted, "one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood."
A friend does everything in his/her
own power to carry you along, never leaves you behind.
Henry Ford quoted, “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
A friend is a confidant.
William Penn quoted that, “ A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
A friend is very forgiving and
never keeps a grudge.
Jean de la Bruyere quoted that, “Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.”
Indeed, there exists negative
friends. Some have been victims of betrayal by people they called friends. That
is why you should beware of who you call a friend.
Not asking that you be friends with
the entire world, but at least, there should be 1 or 2 persons in your life,
whom you can truly call a friend.
Friends come into our lives through
various channels and for different reasons; they could be family, colleagues or
neighbors. From this multitude, we single out a few for qualities that we most
admire.
It does not take long to sense a
relationship which feels as if we have known some folks for our entire lives,
in other words, we feel completely at ease with them. We feel safe, we neither
weigh our thoughts, nor measure our words, we pour them all right out, just as
they are – with a certainty that the sincere and faithful hands of these
invaluable friends will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with
the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Here are a few bible verses about
friendship:
1Corinthians 15:33 – do not be
misled, bad company corrupts good character.
Job 2:11 – when Job’s friends heard
about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes
and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
Luke 6:31 – do to others what you
would want them do to you.
Proverbs 18:24 – one who has
unreliable friends soon come to a ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer
than a brother.
Proverbs 22:24-25 – do not make
friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered,
or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.
Proverbs 13:20 – walk with the wise
and become wise, for a companion of fools suffer harm.
Proverbs 27:5-6 – better is open
rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend is can be trusted, but an enemy
multiplies kisses.
Ecclesiastes 4;9-10 – two are
better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: if either of
them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has
no one to help them up.
Proverb 27:17 – a friend loves at
all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverb 12:26 – the righteous
choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
A good friendship lends itself to a
manner of conversing which flows naturally and with ease, neither one trying to
impress, judge or to be in competition with the other.
According to Waldo Emerson, “the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
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