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Friendship Case

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Friendship

Friendship is a relationship between two persons and more leads to respect and appreciation and trust, which is expected, but it can also give a sense of familiarity, even friendship, which

And with this comes a hard lesson. Unfortunately Friendship is something you only learn it by living and communicating with the others, television doesn’t teach it, schools don’t teach it, and if you’re above a certain age, our parents didn’t teach it. You have to learn it by yourself by thinking of someone as a friend, only to find out they don’t think of you as a friend. It can be devastating, I know, I’ve been there myself. But all the wishing, all the manipulation, all the determination, just serves to push the would-be friend further away. Because of friendship is something you choose to do, you don’t do it out of a sense of obligation. To force someone to be a friend doesn’t mean you have a friend.

I learned a lot about friends when I got sick in 2005 I learned that a friend is someone I trust to be with me when I am at my weakest condition and most vulnerable. And they are some people who have no feeling how painful it is to see, are willing to be with me when I am so helpless and weak. If I would trust my life with you, and vice versa, we are friends. It’s not about whether you are trustworthy, or whether you are friendly, it’s the actual act of trust that is the basis of friendship. If I trust you to be honest, then you’re a friend. If I find I must be careful how I say things, then it’s something other than friendship.

Friendship is not a simple word to express it. it’s an act. It’s something you do, it’s not about whether you’re good or not, it’s not a reflection of you, it’s a balanced relationship between people. That doesn’t mean it’s always balanced at every moment. Sometimes you “need a friend” and other

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