What does friendship mean in your life?

What is friendship? Does it exist? What does friendship mean to you? Asking people these seeming to be simple questions, you will hardly get even two identical answers. Some people will probably ask you to wait several minutes or even more for the answer. And this confusion is easy to explain – most people don’t usually think about the matter of friendship. However, I have a firm position concerning the point I have chosen for discussion – concerning the concept of friendship, its existence or non-existence and its meaning in the life.

First of all, let me explain my notion of the concept. As for me, the friendship is intimate (but non-sexual) relations between two people who have respect for each other, are ready to support and help each other in difficult life’s situations, who always understand each other, never lie and betray each other. Certainly, the friendship is a mutual concept. I mean, that both people should treat each other as a friend – only in this case the relations between two people could be called friendship.

Now I am going to share with you the information I have gotten from the Cambridge International Dictionary of English. "Friendship" comes from the basic word of "friend" which means a person whom you know well and whom you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family.

I want to touch upon one more point of the concept “friendship” – the number of possible friends. I think, the real friend is the only one, all the others – simply comrades, good acquaintances, not more. And I can easy explain my viewpoint. The matter is in the fact that all the people are different and nobody can treat two or more people equally. Therefore, even in the case when you have two comrades, only one of them can become the real, the best friend, the other is treated worse – of course, unconsciously.

Secondly, although it is already clear from the information above, I want to emphasize my belief that friendship exists. It exists as well as hostility, for example, exists, - and it even can’t be called in question. It simply exists – and it has the right to exist, on a level with love, hatred, pity and other emotions. Friendly feelings are without any doubt sort of emotions.

To explain what friendship means to me is difficult. The matter is that I have had many friends during my comparatively not so long life, in different its periods. It’s a pity, but practically each time my friendship have had rather sad final. Frankly speaking, the people, whom I treated as friends, betrayed me – in different ways. And I never forgive betrayal… Speaking about me, one of my mottos in life is the following – it is better to be alone, than to be accompanied by whoever.

However, even now friendship means much in my life. I have a friend now – and I consider him to be the real friend, whom I can trust and rely on. And I have no choice, but to trust him and to believe I am not doing a mistake. Is it possible to live without believe in people and having no trust for anyone? Certainly, it is impossible – however, it is my opinion on the point. Thus, it is impossible for me to live without the real reliable friend.

Just to conclude I want to sum up all I have discussed above. Friendship as the relations between people exists, but it should be mutual. I think, the number of the real friends you can possess at once is one, not more. . Friendly feelings mean much in the life of people (even if they don’t understand it), and, certainly, they mean much in my life – the life without them is impossible for me.