Friendship Requires Understanding From Both Parties

Friendship retention is very important. On a daily basis we meet people who accommodate into our lives, and as time progresses, we give them full room into our hearts to the point that we share secrets with them. Many reasons abound for why we make friends. There are people who easily make friends because of their nature, and there are those who find it so difficult to make friends.

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It is very important to be careful how we make friends because our friends can either make or mar us. Growing up there is this one thing my mother keeps saying: "If a friend does not deceive one, no one can." And this popular saying goes this way: show me your friend, and I will tell the kind of person you are. These brief but strong sayings have gone a long way in guiding how I operate with people.Well, I fall in the category of those who find it so difficult to pick friends.

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I won't say that I am so much of an introvert because I can easily flow with people, but at the same time I do my best not to bring them so close to me. When I make friends, I do my best not to be carried away. Deep within my heart, I get to set some boundaries because as an adult I can tell what is good and bad, so I don't allow how far we go in being close to becloud my true sense of judgement.When I pick a person as a friend, I can go to any length that won't cause harm to me to make sure the friendship is in place.

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For a relationship to work well, there are lots of things to be considered, first of which is sacrifice. Some people are just so self-centered, and that kind of friendship is parasitic in nature; that is to say, they benefit from you, and you dare not benefit from them. And for a relationship to work, both parties have to be ready to do one thing or the other for themselves, though not in the negative aspect.We are humans, and so we have differences in our views, so we should be so careful to respect each other's opinions.

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But I will boldly keep a distance from someone who I call a friend when frequently we have a clash of opinions, especially if the party believes in cheating his way to achieve a goal and doesn't see anything wrong with it. Another thing that will make me separate from a person is if the person is a greedy fellow who is always angry when something good happens to me; that is to say, he is an enemy of progress in a friendship attire.I have a friend who we have good differences in opinion in many aspects of life, but this has not stopped us from being friends.

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As adults we get to respect each other's opinions, and if I really want her to accept my opinion, I get to search out facts and bring scenarios to build up my points. Getting to know what what to do and what not to in any relationship is very important as that helps us not to hurt each others feelings. In all, wisdom profits in giving understand. Thank you for reading.