Friendship is a complex, variable relationship that can provide us with moral and spiritual support or set us on a path that's are deeply destructive.
Friendship has a central role to play in every humans life on earth. And it is best understood in the light of its communication linked and notion with destiny.
Though we are different from every person on the face of earth but without "friendship" I may be tempted to say that it is incontrovertible evidence that each fellow will go no far in life.
In the journey of life, we all happen to travel with other people. We are social beings and need to be in the presence of others.
Many times, however, those who we choose to spend our life with can have an immensely negative impact on us. Therefore we should be very careful when it comes to choosing friends, so that we surround ourselves with those who help us find happiness, instead of those who contribute to our suffering.
Friendship are vital for life that responds to God's calling. Perhaps, one of the famous king of all times, King David would have been eliminated by king Saul but the vital role of friendship was explicitly display has the Bible records it in (1sam. 19:10-15)
The friendship of David and Jonathan is very strongly emphasized in the scriptures, Abraham was described as the friend of God(James 2:23) that's shows the crucial concept of friendship in christian framework and other religion of the world.
Friendship helps every person to grow and ensures that the unique individuality of each person is recognized. All this echoes the values placed by God on the preciousness of each person.
Marcus Tillius Cicero, says: "friendship improve happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. And I don't doubt him about that. If anything is powerful as the power of friendship, it is God himself because He establish and institute it.
Marriages where friendship cables are disconnected or taken for granted often experience tremendous collapse. I could perceive the high rate of divorce today which could be tagged to the negligent and de-activation of initial friendship state which metamorphose the man and the woman to becoming one.
In the other way round, wrong friendship pose a potential danger to anybody and if not quit early enough, jeopardy is inevitable. Friendship is powerful beyond explanation and definitions. Our ancient philosopher Aristotle Studied, analyzed, drawn all the hypotheses, exemplified and undergoes several researches on friendship, yet he couldn't phantom anything as powerful as friendship in human race, then he quipped; "the antidote for fifty enemies is one with one friend".
Frindship may not have been what you were told or the way you viewed it.
"Friendship isn't about who you have known the longest, it's about who came and never left."(unknown)
To how valuable is friendship to Thomas A. Edison that he says "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not sway for the favour of the kings of the world." Wow!
The world will always see friendship in different perspectives but am happy your reading this article today. At the end of it page you will smile and have the real understanding of undisputed power of friendship.
Am sure if you ask four-to-five people to tell you about friendship, certainly you may rightly get four to five different responses. One may tell you how wonderful and meaningful a particular close friendship has been in his/her life as a source of inspiration, motivation, hope, help, spiritual and emotional support through difficult times while another may talk about how wreck friendship, generally has offered inability of him to achieve his set goals. Another person may likely talk about the potential dangers of friendship. His dear son has developed some friendship that's are problematic, and he worried so much that they may cause his son to make poor decision that will result in long term. Thus, friendship he says is something one has to be careful about. And so on. Every person has a deep view in regards to friendship.
What about you, what are your views?
All of these people including you would be saying something true.
But let this be known to you, that friendship is far above our comparison and views.
Late Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend gave a quote that even the next generation won't dispute.
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school - but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learn anything." _Muhammad Ali.
There are different types of ships but the best ship of all is Friendship.
Friendship are never characterized by specific geographical regions.
Woodrow T. Wilson says; "friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together". Yeah, that's true! And nothing is more toxic than "fake friends" am sure of that. Friend are family we chose according to Jess C. Scott. Making a wrong choice of friends could be disastrous to our lives, affecting down to the unborn generation. So, friendship is not not just a story or teachings needed to be told to children alone. Every stage of life requires friends right from day-one baby to the present day methuselah.
Am sure you're familiar with the story of Ammon and Jonadab?
Ammon at his age ruin his life by the choice of his friend he kept.
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.(2 Samuel 13:3)
The craty man Jonadad ruin Ammon his friend with a crafty idea (advice), his advice to Ammon was a microscopic nuclear bomb that roasted Ammon to his early grave where Absolom, his brother workout his death (2 Samuel 13:26_29)
Ammon lust to his sister Tamar would have been melted if he had the right kind of friend. Good friends don't mind telling you the truth even when it hurtful.
Research found that friends often bond by providing one another with the moral support needed to resist a temptation. However, friends also commonly conspire together to enjoy indulgences.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (Prov. 27:5-6)
Rightful friendship will leads so many folks to heaven and reverse is clear, that wrong friendship(negative) will be one of the reasons of more population in hell.
Not every one has to be a close friend, but it's integral to our happiness that we show people who we truly we are, allow ourselves to know them in return, and then remind each other through actions - small or large that we care.
It's up to us to make our friendship count. David and Jonathan did, Paul and Timothy did, I did, others have too, it's you time too.
It's time to make our friendship with others count.
You can't journey through life alone. I pray for you to locate good friends for life.
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