Friendship is shared between two people or a group of people that trust, support, care and are comfortable with each other ("Friendship"). Everyone wants to be a friend and have a friend because of the feelings it gives him or her. It makes them feel like they belong somewhere, like they have a place in the world, and it makes them feel secure and happy to be who they are (Vernon). These are the friends who you can depend on to be there for you, no matter what, and friends that you would be there for, in return. Even if you have fights on occasions, you will almost always make up and come back as the same or even stronger friends.
I know the meaning of true friendship because I have a friend whom I’ve had my whole life. We grew up with each other, trust each other, support each other, and genuinely care about each other. Consequently, we have been able to maintain our friendship over the years. My friend and I have also had a lot of fights, called each other names, and even refused to talk to each other for days. But we always came back and apologized and were friends again. To this very day we disagree on things and fight about it, but nothing can come in and break up our friendship.
Then there are the people who you are friends with one year, but then don’t see or talk to the next. Most of the time it’s because you find you have different things in common or different priorities and drift away from each other. But then there are always some friendships lost because of something that one of you did, intentionally or unintentionally, to get the other in trouble, make them upset or maybe it was a mean joke you played on the other person; a joke you thought was harmless and funny, but ended up hurting them.
I know what it’s like to lose a friend. I’ve had a couple of friends wrong me in ways I can't even begin to describe. Even through it all I don’t hate them for the things they did and I still talk to them from time to time, but I’m not as close to them. This is mainly because I lost all trust in them. Without trust you have nothing but acquaintanceship with the person.
Being a true friend doesn’t mean just saying hello and then walking on by or just talking to someone in one class period and then not at all for the rest of the day. A friend is someone who we can go to and discuss problems, give advice to, comfort when their feeling bad or had a bad day, and someone who you talk to on a daily basis. You shouldn’t be afraid to be seen talking to or hanging out with your friends. You should be loyal to your friends and be yourself around them because they are the ones who won't judge you or make cruel remarks about you behind your back.
The two things true friendship and false friendship, friends that come and go, have in common are: the two of you either are or once were friends and the two of you once had some things in common. They are and once were a person in whom you trusted, confided in, supported, cared for, felt comfortable with, and had some things in common with.
In conclusion, true friends and false friends have a lot of differences and only a couple of similarities. But because of the differences it makes it easier to see who your true and lifelong
friends are. We should also never forget our old friends and what they taught us, even if it was through a wrongdoing.
Works Cited
“Friendship.” En.wikipedia.org.12 June 2007. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 12 June 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship
Vernon, Mark. “ ‘You’ve Got a Friend’. But What Have You Got?” Markvernon.com. 29 Sept
2005. 12 June 2007
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