Thursday, July 26, 2007

Definition of friendship : Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans. This article focuses on the notion specific to interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:
(extracted from Wikipedia)

the tendency to desire what is best for the other, sympathy and empathy, honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart mutual understanding.
In a comparison of
personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. (extracted from Wikipedia)
Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same continuum. (extracted from Wikipedia)
Reading that, I wonder if you'e that true a friend afterall???? You certainly dont seem to show much regards or support to what you know would mean a lot to me. What you know I hope so hard and trying to hard to achieve. And because of that, right now, I dont know where you stand as a friend to me ... I think you need to re-evaluate the friendship that we have and whether or not you really treat what we have as a friendship. Because right now, to me, you've already failed the very first criteria above!

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