Friend - a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection.

Life is beautiful when you know you are not alone. Since the day, you step into this mysterious world, you are surrounded my different kind of people. You have different relationship with them; family, relatives, friends, neighbors, and many more. As you grow up, u start choosing who would be around you. Mostly friends around, adulthood is the most amazing part of the life because you spend most of it with people with whom you share your ideas, friends.

 

“Friend” as defined by Oxford Dictionary is “a person with whom one has a bond of mutual

affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations”. Or simply, “a friend is a person with whom you can share your thoughts without hesitation”. We often get mixed up with the meaning of the word. As the meaning says, person with mutual affections. Therefore, I go back to my childhood and count people with mutual affection, and I realize those I used to call friends are actually not really a big number as I always used to say. So, what do we call them? For me it’s simple, they are either classmates or colleague. Not all people around is your friend.

How we make friends? It’s a question that we may never had asked, or for some who always might think about it, those who are lonely for most part of their life. We have a lot of friends throughout our life, since the beginning. But where are they now? All of them are not around us always or forever. Where do they go? Or did we go away from them?

We live in volatile world. Nothing, here, stays forever; not us, not friends of ours either. We go to school, we have friends there. After few years we go to college, we hardly have same friends from school, we find new friends. Same with work place and society and everywhere we go. Some people are lucky to find friends who are always there in every step of life, “friends forever”.

Being friend or making friends is not a special magic trick or skill or something special, it just happens. You meet different people every day, not all people will agree with your opinion or you agree with theirs. Different people have different taste in things; like music, food, places, book et cetera. You became friends, easily, with people with same taste. It’s natural. You have a lot in common; you can talk endlessly and other person would enjoy talking about the stuffs and vice versa.

Sometimes you encounter with some people with totally different taste of life; like fire and water. Sometimes you may think like “let’s try different taste” for a change. There is a rare chance that you would enjoy that taste of life, and certainty is that “Either you’ll change the taste or you’ll be changed by that taste”. For example, if you became friend with alcoholic guy, either you make him/her non-alcoholic or you also start to become an alcoholic.

Like I said above, we do not have same friends around forever. In our life people come and go, so are friends; very few stay. So, where do they go? It’s simple. We have busy life, we simply do not get time. In other words, we got matured, have responsibilities. It’s not the only reason that we separate from friends; sometimes we fight, get angry with each other. One in many emotion of us human anger is the one that destroy things we love in our life; friendship is just another example. Just because a friend does something or says something we do not like; we break the relation between us. Quite immature decision we make when we are angry.

Why do we forget that forgiveness is the most beautiful thing in the world! It brings peace. And, why can’t we forgive a person who we decide to share our affection? If you are not happy with something about the friend, talk! Talk about it, nobody in the world can read your mind, except you. And, who else can understand you better other than your own friend? Friendship is one beautiful relationship in the world that brings smile on your face. And, smile, because life is beautiful with friends around.