Associating In Understanding And Tolerance

Can two walk together except they are one?

I don't think this statement should necessarily be about opposite genders getting married along but also includes two people either of the same gender or opposite genders coming together to be friends and this statement simply denotes understanding, true love, commitment and tolerance.

It simply means there is a situation of two different people coming together from two different upbringing, beliefs, way of life and standard. The ability of these two or more people getting to relate and associate together with their different beliefs is what is referred to as true friendship.

You would notice I mentioned true friendship up there. Yes, because there are many reasons to making friends and while some desire to make true genuine friendship with no mindset of getting anything in return even when it may end up bringing opportunities to them, but some intentionally go into friendship because of they aim at getting in the course of the friendship and these are the kinds of friendships you see that has issues because it was not based on tolerating one another in the first place.

While I was in secondary school, I remember having some friends based on the fact that my mum runs a restaurant and I bring different delicacies to school and they would want to have a taste in it. From there it resulted to doing love feast with our food (everyone bringing their food together and eating together). Later did I realize their mission when most of them stopped bringing food and would always complain of not cooking at home but go to field at break time to eat their food and also dine and wine at the school cafeteria.
Though this didn't end our friendship from my end but the food sharing stopped with me too and they withdrew from being friends onwards.

We cant end relationships or friendships based on the fact that we don't have tallying beliefs, opinions or ideas if truly it was initially a genuine friendship. There would only be boundaries to knowing how you relate with one another so you don't get to clash with your dislikes.

I was speaking with a friend last night on call and he was talking about someone who would always tap him while talking of which he doesn't like such habit.
Now considering both of them being good friends, one loves to tap while talking and the other doesn't like it then tolerance and boundaries to knowing that the other friend doesn't like being tapped will be the only solution to sustaining such friendship but if these two are left out then the friendship is prone to ending anytime soon.

As long as one is not making friends with oneself alone but considering making friends with others, genuine friendship at that, then openness and tolerance will be highly needed.
You don't want to be secretive or always ready to cast away every act that doesn't go your way in friendship. There are times that your opinion alone doesn't have to excel and be the best or right choice to go for.

Though there may be boundaries, but it may not work everytime as friends and that's where tolerating one another comes in.
There will be moments of Togetherness, laughter, celebrating each other's wins or falls and likewise, moments of fights and wanting to be alone won't be left out so as long as it's a genuine friendship of genuine love, we would always wanna make things work by understanding ourselves so well and cultivating the habit of tolerance as long as they are not deadly acts being exhibited by them.

I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt on Friendship.

Thanks for reading through 🤗

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