Friends Importance in Life

Mankind are social beings. As ‘No man is an island’, no one can lead a solitary life. In reality, friendship is an essence of life. It is something inevitable in all the different stages of life. Truthfully, we are surrounded by many types of friends. There are fair-weather friends who are the so-called friends that stop being friends when we are in need. However, ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed’. True friends are those who are willing to keep us out in times of trouble and they put themselves to be our shoes. There is also type of friends, known as superficial friends. They are usually our acquaintance in life, with them we can have only superficial friendship.

Friends’ existence is crucial. First and foremost, weather friends are those who befriend with us during good times, especially when we are rich, influential, more superior than others, famous, smart or even good looking. But when their help is really needed, they just disappear in the blink of an eye and it seems like they have vanished in thin air and you cannot find them. They will just give all sorts of excuses to avoid us. They have something in common, usually they are unwilling to help, being selfish and self centred. To be honest, they befriend us just for companionship as and their own benefits. Their true colours are shown during our time of hardship, especially when we are broke or being stricken by big failure in life. Fair-weather friends befriend us for what we are, most of the time. It saddens us beyond tears that are many such people around us in this modern society.

However, there are true friends. It is just a matter of time for one to find out who one’s true friends are. True friends are like rare gem that might be the only one in the entire universe. True friends are those that stand by us through thick and thin or even when the whole world is against us. They are the ones who offer sacrificial love for us and befriend us for who we are and not what we are. With people like this we are able to foster intimate and personal relationships. In fact, we can share everything literally everything with them. True friends are those who even tease you but deep down in your heart, you know that they will never forsake you. They are always around and they are not beyond our reach. They are most supportive when the going gets really tough for us. They will never ever betray us for their own sake. They keep our secrets and they are our great comfortables.