True Friendships - How to Get true Friends and friendships



Posted: Friday, February 11, 2005

by
IndiansInc

True Friendship - Recognition



How can we find true friendships in this fast and selfish world. This world is not a permanent world and our life in this temporary world is very short like a thin string tied between two edges. In this time how can we find friends and friendships which is true and trustable. Friendships involves recognition or familarity with another's personality. Friends must share likes and dislikes, interest, views, passion of their life and world. This gives a lot of recognition with the person whom we need have friendship.

How can we recognize potential friendship? There is a lot of symptoms which includes mutual desire for companionship and perhaps a common bond in some topics similar to each other. Beyond that a genuine and mutual friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern, a desire to see one another grow and develop, and a hope for each other to succeed in all aspects of life. True friendshipinvolves action: doing something for someone else while expecting nothing in return sharing thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or negative criticism.

True Friendship - Relationship, Trust, Accountability



True friendship involves relationships. Those mutual attributes we mentioned above become the foundation in which recognition transpires into relationship. Many people say, "Oh, he's a good friend of mine," yet they never take time to spend time with that "good friend." Friendship takes time: time to get to know each other, time to build shared memories, time to invest in each other's growth.

Trust is essential to true friendship. We all need someone with whom we can share our lives, thoughts, feelings, and frustrations. We need to be able to share our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will end up on the Internet the next day! Failing to be trustworthy with those intimate secrets can destroy a friendship in a hurry. Faithfulness and loyalty are key to true friendship. Without them, we often feel betrayed, left out, and lonely. In true friendship, there is no backbiting, no negative thoughts, no turning away.

True friendship requires certain accountability factors. Real friends encourage one another and forgive one another where there has been an offense. Genuine friendship supports during times of struggle. Friends are dependable. In true friendship, unconditional love develops. We love our friends no matter what and we always want the best for our friends.

True Friendship - Solution to every problems



If you have a true friendship with some singles or personals, then you don't need to worry about any problems that you face. A true friendship is offen refered to the solutions that a person needs. When we are in trouble we can ask for soluton to the trustable true friends and friendship only. We can't expose our problems to others who are not having true friendship with us. But when we discuss our problem we get a solution from our friends, friends never expose our weekness and try to hide them from coming out. They give better solution than others. We can discuss any problem with friends who are true in their friendship.

True Friendship - Real Help in needed time



A real true friendship offer helping hands to the friends who are in trouble. As I said it as a solution for problems, true friends are also the helpers for others. Friends never let us go sink into problems. Instead friends try to rescue us from problem by helping us. With friends and friendship there will be a common bonding named helping. Friends never runaway from problem of other friends.

Real and true friendship involves freedom of choice, accountability, truth, and forgiveness. Real friendship looks at the heart, not just the "packaging." Genuine friendship loves for love's sake, not just for what it can get in return. True friendship is both challenging and exciting. It risks, it overlooks faults, and it loves unconditionally, but it also involves being truthful, even though it may hurt. Genuine friendship, also called "agape" love, comes from the Lord. When we've offended a true friend - whether by breaking a trust or by speaking the truth with love - we risk losing that friendship. We must be careful not to break the trust. But when not speaking the truth will cause greater hurt in our friend's life, we must be willing to sacrifice our needs for those of our friend. That is true friendship.

So never offend any true friendship try to get more true friendships in this earth.

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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)
» left by carmen from macon 6 years 261 days ago.
I think this is on good source relating true friendshp. After reading these article i really understood the difference between just being friend and being true friend. This was really helpful to me because i was doing a research paper on true friend
» left by joe
from Dallas 6 years 153 days ago.
I want to rate but not to comment. Article is good
» left by Anonymous
 3 years 304 days ago.
very gud article
» left by shinu from bangalore 3 years 299 days ago.
shiny from bangalore:(7month and ago) How do we get lost friends?from the pain of true friendshinp
» left by shinu from bangalore 3 years 299 days ago.
shiny shubashini from bangalore:i h've lost my friend vikram (senthil kumar)coz of some problem,so i want my friend back, so all your pepole plz pray for me to get my frd back.,kindly thanking you all and may god bless those who all praying for me and love you all.From(shiny shubashini)
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