Friendship

DO NOT FORGET THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP.

By: Juliana Ortiz Gaitán and María Paula Rojas Hernández

               As everyone knows, friendship is one of the most important things in human life; sometimes we cannot live without friends. However, not everyone understands the true meaning of friendship and the importance of being a good friend.  Nowadays, children and adolescents complain that there are no real friends, and that friendships are constantly ending.

There is a very famous and popular saying “real friends are hard to find”, and it is completely true, because if you really want to have a special person to share moments with, you must be a good friend, in other words, if you want to find a good friend, you must be one.  A friendship is like a plant, you must feed it so it can grow, this kind of relationships demands time and effort.  So, to be more precise, the bases for constructing a real friendship are trust, loyalty, appreciation, commitment, solidarity, respect, honesty and interest in the other. Without those characteristics a friendship cannot work out.  As a result of your dedication, a friend provides a lot of support and comfort in good and bad times. That is the reason why friends are so important and valuables.

Investigations had proved that during childhood and adolescence friends are a big part of life; during these ages children are developing social aptitudes as well as their own personality. Regrettably, the society is in constant change, and children and adolescents too. At this moment, this young people are more concerned about their selves, they are just thinking in technology, fashion, and money.  In fact, they are not conscious of this, instead, they keep complaining about the extinction of real friends.  Friendships end for many different reason; the most common one, is the ending of high school; everyone takes their own way, and friends are forced to separate. In the same way, friendships end because of lack of commitment, trust and loyalty. Although it cannot be generalized, the young generations of nowadays are completely apart of the true meaning of friendship.  By the other hand, in actual society, hypocrisy is very common, and there are some people that just want to get benefits from you; of course this kind of situation makes you lose confidence and hope for finding a real friend. Meanwhile, there are some other people that are not bad or hypocrites, on the contrary, they are funny and interesting, but simply do not fill the expectations and the characteristics a true friend should have, the ones mentioned before.

This is a sad situation, with the passage of time the meaning of friendship has changed. But we could not lose hope, because actually real friends do exist. We just need to aside the superficial things and focus on being good persons for bringing the best of people and even the best of our selves. But remember, always following the characteristics you want to find in a friend; together we can make a better society full of harmony and affection.  After all, friends and family are the most beautiful treasures a person can have.