Definition of Friendship

How would you define friendship? The dictionary says its a relationship between friends, the emotions or conduct of friends, a state of being friends. It even says its a state of mutual trust and support between nations and allies.

So, if friendship is the relationship between friends, then what’s a friend? Google dictionary says its someone whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection.

That’s the dictionary, but I find that people have their own definition of friends and friendship.

Some people consider everyone their meet their friend. For others, it takes a long time to consider someone a friend. As a kid, we’re asked by our parents if we made a new friend today. It’s important. We’re social beings, we need friends as much as some of us don’t want to admit it. When I was a kid, adults made it sound like everyone in your class is your friend. Some of them are just closer friends than others. So, I got into the mindset that everyone I met was my friend, and that’s not true.

In the world we live in these days, friends can be hard to come by. It can be hard to trust someone’s intentions. Whether you have someone’s support or whether they’re waiting to stab you in the back. You can meet someone, make a friend, but then life gets busy. You and your friend don’t talk anymore and you start to wonder if you’re even still friends. Perhaps your lives are just too different for you to be friends.

My favorite types of tv shows and movies are the ones between friends. The kinds where two best friends can yell and scream at each other for stupid things, but the next scene they’re back to supporting each other. Getting excited over little things. Having inside jokes. Teasing each other, but it when it comes down to it, they have each others backs.

Whatever your definition of friendship, I hope you find the kind of friendship in the tv shows. Friendship to cherish. Friendship to trust. Because, no one deserves to be alone.