"..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:
- 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..."
- A friend who supports others only when it is easy and convenient to do so is called a "fair-weather friend".
- A friend who supports their own friends through emotional difficulties is a "true friend." This term also denotes a large degree of altruism, in that the true friend often sacrifices something of his or her own (usually their time and resources) in order to help the friend in need. True friends also are known to be very rare. A true friend may not be your best friend but someone who you know will be there for you.
- A "best friend" is a friend to whom one feels closest. It is usually implied that the relationship is reciprocal, but such is not always the case, and best friend relationships can often be very complex.
The keyword here is affection , loyalty towards each other, and altruism.That is how I treat some close friends that i really like. I'm always nice to people that are nice to me, and I treat them the way I would like to be treated as a friend. But how do we know that they are being nice to us sincerely??They may be just using u to fulfill their own selfish ends and they'll forget all about u when u have served their purposed...Im not talking about the friends that i have but maybe just a few or just one.I'm not the type of person to think bad about others, in fact I'm always optimistic.Do we still continue being nice to them even when their not nice to us? When do we draw the line??If u stop being nice, people would think that u guys are having a fight, whereas that is not the case at all. Of course this only implies to close friends.
P/S: Currently am confused, not to be confused with paranoid
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