Saturday, February 5, 2011

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Meaning of Friendship
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They say, friends are the ones, whom we cherish all our lives. And why not when we spend most of our growing years with them. The formative years of learning, pit falls and experimentation, are all spent in the bondage of friendship. A bondage, which becomes unbreakable as time passes by. It strengthens the love through anger, through words of advise and immeasurable amount of care. Each one of us goes through phases of lives, where friends become our pillars of strength, vigilante and protégé. The meaning of friendship begins to originate, as belief and faith develops.
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We all have a lot of friends, but do we have that true blue friend? Do we have a friend to whom we can say anything to, whether it always makes sense or not? True friendship is something very special. The ones who are fortunate enough to have a true friend know how spectacular it is. When we were children we used to write essays describing our true friends.
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The descriptions were mostly of the person sitting beside us or someone who gave us a tempting chocolate on that day! However as we have grown up we have seen the meaning of friendship change and develop before our eyes. If we were to describe a true friend now, it would probably be someone who we think of as our best friend.
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This true friend is someone who occupies a permanent space in our hearts. The depth and degree of this friendship does not change with number of meetings or gifts exchanged. The bond shared between true best friends is a very strong bond of love. This bond may never break in the toughest of situations, yet sometimes a small gust of wind can sever these ties, making them seem as fragile as silk threads. "In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . . I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive." These are the views of Lord Byron, and this is what can break a true friendship.
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Deceit and dishonesty are the elements that can shatter the purest of friendships. This is something we must always remember, as there is no actual need to lie to true friends. The truest of friends will always love you for what you are.
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What is friendship? What is the meaning of this relationship? We have often sought answers to these questions, yet we have never come up with an adequate answer. This is because this relationship is an amalgamation of beautiful and complex feelings, which may not often be described in words. Defining a relationship is never easy, as there are so many facets to it. However we don't need a bunch of words to make us realize the deep meaning of friendship.
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According to George Elliot "Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
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This heartwarming expression captures the essence of friendship. When two people share a strong bond of mutual understanding, respect and love it lays the foundation stone for an everlasting friendship. This bond just gets stronger with time; the trust between the two people grows and so does the attachment.
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This is the beauty of the relationship and is the essential meaning of friendship. Being friends means being there for each other at all times, whether it's good or bad. A friend needs to be very understanding and give each other the benefit of the doubt. Ideally the meaning of friendship is sharing unconditional love for each other. However this is not an ideal world; therefore some form of expectations are allowed, but that has a limit too. The purpose and meaning of friendship is to make life's burdens lighter for our friends and not make them heavier. The Roman thinker Cicero said "Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties."
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Searching for the meaning of friendship has always been a burning question. However as soon as we meet our friends all these questions get answered automatically. The answer to what is the meaning of friendship lies within our hearts, because true friendship can only be felt, and not expressed. Something so pure and essential is not always visible to the eye, but is felt by the heart. 
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# A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

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