"A real friend is a person who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face."
Friendship is the bond that goes beyond childhood, school, or life experiences. Unlike in other relationships, we sometimes don’t know when a friendship emerges, but it is impactful. In hard times and when we are in doubt, we reach out to our friends first, more often than not more openly than our parents. A good set of friends not only comforts us, also gives our elders comfort to know we're not alone.
What a truly special friend is?
True friends don’t just show up when you are prosperous, famous or very well off. Those who stand by us in sorrow, who understand our pain and who assist with our needs silently and selflessly. Those friendships are scarce, but to have them is among life’s greatest blessings. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us,” said one of the best-known sayings. Often, it is our friends who give courage, lift our spirits in bad times; and who make our happiest times even better.
Lessons From Real Friendship:
I have a group of friends who have never left me behind. When I tried to do good, they encouraged me, when struggles knocked me down, they silently comforted me in tough times. I’ve watched friends cheer up those broken by heartbreak, and shield one another, even at personal sacrifice. All this is the essence of friendship, self-sacrifice. Even great minds such as Swami Vivekananda loved friends who empathized with their pain and were there through tough times. Friendship is above wealth, caste, faith and age. It grows wherever hearts meet, and is, as both sources of encouragement, moral support and joy.
Cherish the Friends You Have:
True friends are few and far between but cannot be quantified. Where you have them, cherish these attachments, cultivate them, and never let them go away. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what our friends make it. True friendship makes us stronger, makes life meaningful, it is the most lasting sign of friendship and it leaves behind a mark.
True friendship is life’s greatest treasure, standing by us in joy and sorrow. Cherish those friends who support, guide, and uplift you they make life meaningful.
