Friends + Ship = Friendship!

"Some friends are worth to be thrown, some are good to be kept and some are to be treasured and I think you are the one who needs to be..... thrown! haha.. in a treasure box to be kept forever.." - Anonymous



They said that "No man is an island" and I pretty believe in that. There are always friend around you to accompany you through life, to make you feel special and to help you make life to the fullest. "That's what friends are for.." as a song goes.

Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty and honesty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable things and stuffs. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advices and the sharing of hardships. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors thus, making the other or others feel alright. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that anyone or anything will not harm them. The true value of friendship is demonstrated when a friend does the following:

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,

mutual understanding.

In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than acquaintanceship, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both of them.




I myself own lots and lots of friends which i truly treasure from the bottom of my heart. Not just in UP (my recent school) but I also have countless friends in USPF (my Alma Mater), USJR, USC (NC, Main and Talamban Campuses), CIC and more. And I know that I will meet and make more and more friends in just a wink of an eye (don't know if I'll be able to do this). Well, my friends that are really close to me are Krystal, Beverly, Ma.Jane and Kathleen.


Here are some of the manifestations about friendship.
According to C.S. Lewis,

"To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. We admit of course that besides a wife and family a man needs a few 'friends'. But the very tone of the admission, and the sort of acquaintanceships which those who make it would describe as 'friendships', show clearly that what they are talking about has very little to do with that Philia which Aristotle classified among the virtues or that Amicitia on which Cicero wrote a book."

Likewise, Paul Halsall claims that:

"The intense emotional and affective relationships described in the past as "non-sexual" cannot be said to exist today: modern heterosexual men can be buddies, but unless drunk they cannot touch each other, or regularly sleep together. They cannot affirm that an emotional affective relationship with another man is the centrally important relationship in their lives. It is not going too far, is it, to claim that friendship – if used to translate Greek philia or Latin amicitia – hardly exists among heterosexual men in modern Western society."