Of friendship

For a friend, who never ceased believing that kindness begets kindness.

Friends come and go, but we tend to keep a few of them.

The ones who stick become good buddies and the ones who detached from us for reasons of job, family, etc., in the course of years, become mere acquaintances.

Friends directly or indirectly mold our personalities, our aspirations, and even our beliefs. These are the friends who influence us of what we become, whether in good or bad ways.

There are times, our good friends blundered because of lapses of judgment, and does it mean that kindness to a friend become outlandish? How about being just and fair to the one afflicted? Yes, by standard of morality it is disputable. However, by standard of being a good friend; it’s business as usual.

Although in retrospect we are sometimes the reason why friendship gets bland.

Why..?

We usually get hurt when a dear at heart left handed us. We tend to backbite, at worst curse. Human as we are, when our pride wounded the resort is to engage on character assassination. Pride usually overwhelms power; it blocks our mind to think logically. We are pinned of being bitter that often led to hatred and scorns.

Good friends are elusive at times. Even if you show too much kindness, betrayal always happen in different proportions. We feel screwed, but life is all about forgiving and moving on.

Cause and effect are guaranteed in every action that we do. Risk can be predicted so in the midst of confusions, don’t be fooled of what is real from lies. Doing favors for our friends is exhausting at times. Just don’t expect for any return on a given favor to avoid being disappointed, what matters is that you helped and somehow felt happy.

Bear in mind, our friends are God-given companions in the course of our lives, and in the definition of who we are, aside from our loved ones; our achievements; our friends equate the totality of our persona.