Friendship is a very precious gift from God that when you find a good friend you don't ever want anything that will separate the both of you. I love having friends around me but reasonable ones. We can't also do without friends around us. Sometimes without a good friend, the whole world will not be sweet for you. Then how on earth should we do away with such a blessing that complete everything for us? These and many more we shall discuss here.
Taking a good look at the oxford dictionary we will understand that a friend is - person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. From that we will conclude that friendship is a word coined from 'friend'. And we cherish friendship alot. Well I don't know about you, but for me I cherish friendship so so much that I can just let go anything within my power just to maintain friendship.
While growing up I made lots of friends. I enjoy it so much, but I am also careful with the kind of friends that I make. From my primary one to five I had friends that matters to me in their numbers. Some of these friends find their way to me and some I went close to them because I care about them. But there is something with me about friendship. I cherish the friends that I chose than the ones that choose me. I don't know whether others see it that way. I know just one friend amongst all my Friends that stick to me even when we were through with our primary school and the reason been that we live in the same compound. We go to school every day together and we come up home together. We practically do everything together even at home. While growing up because we were already close to each other we became best of friends. This continued till when something drastic happened to me and brought an end to my sweet relationship with my best friend.
As early as thirteen and fourteen she already taught me how to make boy friend. I started moving from one place to the other with her visiting her boyfriends which lead to me getting used to some of the boys and had my own boyfriends. the age of eighteen (18) I encountered Jesus Christ and my life took a new turn. Gradually from that moment things began to go the opposite way between us. Though we still live in the same compound but we can't move together anymore. I stopped following her around because most of the places she goes is her boyfriends place and I had no business there any more. She can't also follow me around because all that matters to me at that time was to go to church and hear God's word and pray. She don't like things like that. That was the beginning of our separation. We went our separate ways and just talk to each other once in a while.
Gradually she began to tell people that I have joined those people who are deceiving themselves and she believe that my eyes will soon clear. I has all of that but never went to ask her of what she said. I just concentrated on my new found Faith. It continued that way for years until we all packed out of that compound and we lost contact.
I believe that there is always one good reason to let go a friendship that was once good before. If the two friends don't see same thing anymore. If they don't agree with each other any more. Maybe having different motives about life. This is a strong reason for me to let go a friend no matter how good we were.
In conclusion, I believe that if you are my friend, then we must have same vision or ambition about life. We need to see things in the same direction. If we are all disagreeing on things all the time then we have nothing in common and should not be friends at first.
This post was inspired by the hive learners community contest for week 126: edition 2 - The worst reasons.
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