When I look all around me I see people talking, holdng hands, and laughing and behind all of this geity there is the famous word of friendship. People generally describe a friend as a person who will always stick by you. But how can that be when they might not always agree with you. A person who won't lie on or to you. But how can that be when sometimes the truth hurts. Oh yeah don't forget the most famous one of all a friend is a person who loves you despite of all of your faults. Again I say how can that be when the first person to judge you when things go wrong is the person closest to you. Being a friend to me is learning how to be a companion to that person. Understanding your friends thinking, way of life, and decisions. Knowing how to be a critic without being too snappy is very important, and telling the truth even when the truth hurts, because believe me it is way better coming from you than a million other people. Let me just give you a typical example of a friend who does'nt want to hurt your feelings. A man asks his friend if he looked, and smelled allright since he was going on a date, typically as a friend you said yes knowing that your friends fade is played out, that he thinks is the hottest thing around. So your friend goes on that date looking like a played out pimp and gets his feelings more hurt when the woman makes fun of him. If that's a definition of a friend well there just is something wrong.
Friendship is a word these days that is used too loosely. People use the word friend as a word to call the person who they were just recently bad mouthing ten minutes before. But is a friend someone who chooses to like you whenever they want to?. I personally don't think so. A friend is someone who will pray for you when you can't find direction and when all your joy is shot and gone. One very important thing I learned in my so far short lived life is, that friendship is not all it seems if you don't know yourself how to be a friend. What I mean is that you can't expect someone else to be the friend to you that you are not to them.
I categorize myself as a person who knows what she is doing when I decide to call someone my friend, or to call myself someone else's friend. Everyday I talk to, hang out, pray with and study with my friends. By doing all of these things I am able to learn and understand the person on the other side who I call my friend. A relationship is established where closeness and communication exist. I often ask myself the question of whether I would actually give up myself for a friend when I see danger getting ready to strike, and the answer is yes. See no matter who you are if you can't do everything to help as a friend you must do what is accessible to you to help. It is impossible for a true friend to watch his/her friend hurt and in pain and not hurt themselves, I just personally will loose my mind if I couldn't do anything to take that pain away. I throughout my life have encountered good and bad friends. People who I called friends who lied on me, cursed me, and stole from me, people who loved me, helped me, and prayed for me, And through it all I was able to learn myself how not to become what I don't like. You see I consider myself blessed with the friends that I have today. We not only tell each other frequently how much we love each other, we show it. I have the best friends God could ever bless me with, and the greatest friend I had or ever will have is GOD.