Friendship forever?? Friendship forever!!!

Friends are family that you choose, so the saying goes. Most of us acknowledge the fact that friends are important and that a life without friends is a sad one indeed. Having friends that you can turn to, have fun with, do crazy things together, and reveals secret to is a must for most of us but can friendship really last forever?

There are times that a friendship needs to face some testing. May it be something to do with $, falling for the same opposite sex or any other conflict of interests. However, things are hard to understand when friendship is questioned due to a small minor issue. Things like borrowing a pencil, mistakenly signed the wrong attendance sheet, being late for a date or perhaps not answering a phone call, just to name a few. The question is whether friendship is build on a soft fragile foundation, that a small issue would bring years of friendship to an end.

There are two types of people that I personally do not admire. The first one is people that always put friendship at stake. This type of people would warn you to do or not to do something they like/dislike else they will break the friendship. I see this people as not knowing and appreciating the true meaning of friendship. To me, friends are like RPC shares – once a friend, always a friend. Therefore, the number of friends that you have could only increase as you grow older. A friendship is not something that you could measure quantitatively. A strong friendship could not be calculated by the times you go outing in a month, how many times you go for tea together, the number of secrets you shared together, how many words you speak to each other everyday, or how many games of FIFA you played together. Friendship is something very abstract; it is something deep inside the heart. You might not be seeing each other, you might not be talking to each other yet when you face any difficulty, you know that your friend would definitely be there for you.

The second type of people that I find it disturbing is those that always take things seriously. They could always make a joke on you but you are not allowed to pull a small prank on them. This is a typical “head they win, tail you lose” situation. No matter what, you are always the biggest loser. They enjoy teasing/joking with others when it comes to things that do not involve them. Yet when people do the same thing to them, things wouldn’t be the same.

Taking into account the world population, the probability for a person to meet a stranger and later become friends is very low. In fact, the probability is approximately equal to zero. Just imagine that it takes so many “what if” to make it impossible for two strangers to meet up with each other. What if your friend does not enroll in the same education institution as you? What if both of you are not arranged in the same class? What if your friend doesn’t start talking to you on the first day both of you meet up? What if you are not born in the same country as where you are now? What if your parents decide to migrate to overseas when you are four years old? What if…..What if…..and it is a never ending “What if”. Therefore, the next time when you decide to stop befriend anyone, think twice! There are a few things in world that men would never complain that he possesses too many of it. Money is one. Friend is another.