Friendship is one of the most important things in life; something that defines our lives and our personalities. Everybody needs at least one good friend and just that one person can make a difference. As Aristotle said, “A man who lives without friends is either a God or an animal.”
When we are still young children, making friends is the beginning of socializing and necessary for building a healthy life as an adult later.
Friends make all the bad things look better and all the good things looking great. They have a way of just making things right. Remember all those times you spent comforting your friends –or being comforted by them– or the times and the nights you spent celebrating and partying for each other’s joy.
With a true friend you have spent so many moments that it is impossible to remember. And somehow you never get bored. Lazy times, just hanging around doing, well nothing. Going on vacations, nights of endless talking, partying, laughing, crying, getting drunk (getting embarrassed afterward), fighting, making up again.
Everyday moments that with your besties, your special friends, become stories worth telling for years to come. Especially if there is something really embarrassing in those stories for one of you, the others will make sure to tell them to the people you would never want to find out about them. But that’s how friends are. They will laugh at you and maybe embarrass you but they will start a fight if anyone else tries to do that.
Friends are the family that we choose.
That’s why we love them so much. And why they are so important to us. They give color to our lives and make everything brighter. They are always there when you are in love and you act crazy, and when you got your heartbroken.
As we get older, and things change in our lives, they also change in the lives of our friends too. Relationships, studies, careers may split you up as the years pass. From another city to another country, or in the next house next door, but with no time to hang out as you used to. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Of course, you miss your friends and wish you could see them more often, but on the other hand, if those choices that split you apart make each one of you happy, then you all should be happy for yourselves and for your friends. That’s true love anyway. To be happy for the people you love, not in a selfish way, but just because they are happy and that’s enough for you.
True friends really love each other. Like brothers and sisters. That’s why it is really painful to be separated from a dear friend. Then again, no matter if they see each other every day or every year, no matter if they live in the same city or in different countries, every time they talk, every time they meet, it will be like they were together just yesterday.
They have won that with all those moments they have spent together in the past. They have won that when no matter how long they haven’t spoken to each other when the one needs the other they will be there. They will be there in every important moment to celebrate with you again or to comfort your sorrow. And they will always manage to do that better than anyone else.
That’s the beauty of friendship anyway. That’s what I really love about it. That it is a kind of love that’s really deep and certain and at the same time is so free and calm. The kind of love that will always be with you making sure you will never feel lonely but it will let you open your wings and fly to wherever you want to and it still is there giving you nothing but strength.
Author: Areti Acheimastou
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