What is friendship?

                  Do you remember your childhood? When there was no question who is your friend and who is not. All those kids, playing outside in the yard, were our friends.  Now when we are grown up all those bosom friends disappeared, they left somewhere in the past. That means that the time changes everything. New life period brings new friends. However, only true friendship will pass all those exams which life brings to us. Great friendship is an unbreakable connection between two people who understand each other from a half of word.

                To start with, I want to say that all of us have friends, family members and acquaintances. It is very hard to live alone,all by yourself. That’s why we want to have a shoulder to cry on. Someone with whom we could share our thoughts, excitements, worries and joys. The thing is that we cannot tell all our secrets to one of the fair-weather friends.  It is very important to know how to recognize real friendship from the fake one. I do not really believe the people who say that they have a lot of friends. It is impossible to have more than one or maybe two real friends because it takes a lot of time to create long-standing friendship. 

                 Although, there is one very old and good quotation “show me who is your friend and I will show who you are”. True friend is like your twin.  Faithful friend is the one from whom you can learn a lot of things, he is the one who will show you only good examples. If your friendship is true, then there will be no circumstances under which you would give up on each other. If it happens that means that your friendship was fake. There are a lot of different friendships in the world. We always look for that great friendship which life will provide us like a miracle. It is important to know that we have to be open and ready to sacrifice for the real friendship.

                  And the last but not least, you have to realize the main idea about true friendship, that if you want to gain something you have to give something back too.  You have to forget egoism and start to care about your friend’s destiny, do some useful things for him, try to help when he has a problem and do not expect to be rewarded. It is exactly what real friends do for each other. If after all those things which you have done for your friend you feel satisfied, that means that your friendship is true and very strong.

                All things considered, I want to say that it is a very serious step to start calling friendship a relation between you and other person. You have to be sure that he will be with you through thick and thin. It is important to have a hope that your friendship will survive all those ups and downs. And the most esential thing for you is to feel ready to become a loyal friend and start a new friendship.