Who is a friend?

in #hivenaija7 months ago

Who is a friend?

Friendship could mean different thing to different people depending on their understanding and experiences with people they call friends.

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Friendship is a relationship that comes with true openness of heart towards each other irrespective of differences, it brings bonding to one another mutually or otherwise with clear conscience to support each other in times of needs, the needs could be emotional support, financial, professional, moral/mental support and spiritual support. The following are details of some of the points stated above.

Emotional Support:
No matter how strong people may look something breaks them down due to life challenges, putting them through emotional stress. At this point what they need is true support from friends and family members to bring them out from the stress. This support comes in form of encouragement with the right words and hope for a better tomorrow.

Financial Support:
True friends support each other financially no matter how small to relieve the burden of not having money to solve personal needs like paying for light bills, medical bills, feeding, accommodation and even support to start a business or revive dying business.

Professional Support:
Consulting experts to solve problems in business or skilled professions sometimes cost money, but having a good friend who is expert in the area you need professional advice or services makes all things easy because he or she will not charge you the way others will charge, sometimes it's even done for free.

Spiritual Support:
Irrespective of different religious believes and background, Good friends pray for each other in times of life challenges and difficulty. Friends take it upon themselves to even invite their friends to meet with their own spiritual leaders for counseling and prayers.

Moral and Mental Support:
The morals of people drop when they face difficult task or experience constant resistance and failure. In times like this good friends with resilient spirit encourage one another to be mentally stable to boost morals to be able to get through challenges.

Not everybody is called a friend, a good friend must have some if not all the following qualities, be forgiven, give willingly, sacrifice, be patient, accommodate, tolerate, humble, understanding, loving, caring and be trust worthy. Improve on yourself and be a blessing and not a curse of pain to someone.

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