Friends can arise from anywhere. The birth of a friendship is like an unexpected event in life. Sometimes, a friend can come up into your life from your childhood and can stay with you all your life. New friendships can arise during your academic years or professional sites. Some good friendships can happen during a journey.
Relationships have a vital role to play in a person’s health and well-being. Friendship plays a key role. We need to understand the relevance of such relationships in our lives.
Good friendships keep us teaching new things, always. Friendships have the power to transform our perspectives, opinions, and views. They consistently give us good suggestions for our benefits. They can generate positive results. Good friendships enhance our self-confidence and enable us to achieve our goals. Every one lives in a hectic world entangled in professional commitments, family time, study, and such things. If you are still able to find time amidst all these things for spending time with your friends, make a phone call or go for a trip, then it means that friendship is precious for you. It also means that your friend values you.
We might have criticized our friends at some point in our lives. We might have thought that he or she was not a real friend. We also need to ask ourselves: Was I a good friend to him?
Perhaps, we are good friends. But there is still space for improvement. So, in this new year, let us make a decision to be better friends.
How can I be a good friend?
Do you want to be a good friend? Here are some useful tips.
When there is a long interval of silence between you and your friend, with whom you used to contact over phone or other means, initiate a fresh contact.
Be a good listener
Celebrate the success of your friends, support them in their failures, and stay close to them when they are sad.
Do not shun them when they are in need.
Do not blame the other alone for a mistake in which both of you are involved.
Speak honestly and candidly
Empathize with your friends
Never miss an opportunity to rejoice and make them happy
Be mindful of your health-needs.
Signs of bad friends
Incapability to keep secrets
Friends should be trustworthy. Many things are shared between friends that the outer world does not know. If it occurs that one of the friends shares the secrets about his friend’s secrets with a third one, it will break the trust.
Using the other for one’s
own benefits
Even though one claims to be a sincere friend, if he or she behaves selfishly and use the other for his or her own benefits, that is not true friendship.
Never ready to say ‘sorry’
Sincere friends might have hurt the other at least once, through word or deed. There is always an element of pain in good friendships. But if you are not able to say ‘sorry’ to the other, it is a sign that you are not a good friend.
Not ready to work to maintain friendship
For most people, friendship is a one-way affair. They are ready to talk, if the other one calls them over phone or they are happy if the other one visits them. At the same time, they are least concerned if the phone call never arrives. Such people are not good friends. Friendships remain strong only when both the friends take effort. One-way friendships never last.
