The society we live in, the company we keep, is not limited to only our immediate environment. In this regard, we meet new people and make connections from all walks of life. Friendship is borne from affection and personal regards, some from sharing common interest and a variety of criteria that gives rise to friendship.
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That being said, every step we take in life brings along with it set of friendship. Growing in your community will give your friends, attending school from creche till tertiary will give you its set of friends, attending churches, mosques, functions, gathering, being in a settlement or any environment that revolves around people, will give you friends.
Due to diversity in human behavior and nature, each person that crosses your path comes with something uniquely associated with the person in question. You get the best, the good, the bad and the ugly out of friendship. If I am to go back in time, this is the advice to my 20year old self.
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Friendship Could be a Haven:
I am not huge on friendship but I have a couple of friends that makes it possible for defining friendship with words like reliability, consistency, selflessness, support-system and a long line of descriptive word. Life is complicated as it is, and sometimes, having true friends makes it worth the while. It creates a connection that you can fall back on in times of need.
There may be instances whereby getting emotional support from friends goes a long way to impact our receptiveness towards things. Materialistically and emotionally, I have had friends hold me down and had my back. Even with work, it was a friend who gave me the link to apply and it worked for me. As friends stands for me, I do same and it makes life meaningful. In all these, I sometimes feel friendship could be a haven.
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Friendship Is Not Forever
Friendship is beautiful, when it works for you, you keep it. But not all friends are meant to be in our lives and ride with us. Some friends are borne out of instances and when that instance passes, so does the friendship. In the same way, betrayals could encroach into it. Hence, do not put so much expectations on friendship, when it works for you that is wonderful, but do not expect every friendship you make to last with you forever.
Choose your friends.
Be friendly but do not make everyone your friend. Some people come to your life not with the intention of having positive influences but rather to take from you and to make an effort to make you retrogress instead of progressing.
Friendship is important but it could also mar your life, make friends but do not put expectations on it.
