See the difference

By: Kenneth Pimentel

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and be loved to the greatest happiness of existence. -Sydney Smith

Friendship is a manifestation form of self knowledge, a capacity of the human being to refer himself on others, and is also a human characteristic which in fact according to Aristotle that “nobody can live without friends, even if he or she has all the fortunes in the whole world”

          It is a relationship that required to be reciprocal to turn into friendship. Benefits and necessities of friendship is indeed innumerable. But be wise enough because many pretend to be friend and terminate friendship as soon as their interests are fulfilled. We may have thousands of fair-weathered friends in prosperity but real friends are those who stand by us in our trouble.

No one said making friends was easy, automatic, simple, or pain-free. Very few things in life are effortless – certainly not the things that matter. Since then, friends that I have made have lasted, have come, and have gone by like the seasons. Every time I heard the phrase “seasonal friends” I was perplexed by it,but I have to accept the accuracy of its meaning.

          Seasonal friends have taught us different lessons in life but I believe that no matter how bad your relationship with your friend was, or how you knew each other for a short period of time and wished it would be your forever friendship, one thing is for sure, and that they have only taught us great lessons that we will definitely use at some point in our lives. Let us just accept the fact that our paths were not aligned like they used to be. And that they have come to assist or guide you for some reasons, and then suddenly they will disappear like their purpose in our life is done.

          Making new friends is not rocket science, but neither is it necessarily uncomplicated. But we don’t need to get fear of it, as long as we know that nothing in life is pain-free and that we are much more adaptable than we usually give ourselves credit for being.

          In-spite all of that, we have friends that we knew we were going to be with for the rest of our lives, you just felt it from the moment you guys met. Friends that you can share your victory with, friends  that makes you experience things that you have never imagined doing before, friends who accepts imperfection of yours and still loves you perfectly, and friends that is not just there when it is convenient, but who is there when it is not.They are someone that we should treasure, someone that we value and give importance because they will for sure do the exact same thing to you. After all, it is the likenesses in personality, life style, interests and habits that were once the base of friendship.

Every relationships we engage in will be a life teacher for us, cultivating moments of impatience to teach us patience, frustrations to teach us forgiveness, annoyance to teach us acceptance, and angst to teach us joy. You see, wee never really get to choose who are we going to meet but we can choose who we should keep.