Friends who will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other.Their tastes will usually be the same they share activities and help one another like exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. Value that is found in friendships it is the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis. Trust, believe, helping, caring,etc.
2006-11-20 23:18:01
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answered by buttmunchita 2
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Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. 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 each other.
sympathy and empathy.
honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth.
mutual understanding.
In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than acquaintanceship, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and acquaintances. Friendship and acquaintanceship can be thought of spanning across the same continuum.
The principal disciplines studying friendship are sociology, anthropology and zoology. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles. See Interpersonal relationships
2006-11-21 07:38:28
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answered by Anonymous
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If u have a good friend and a lasting friendship u really can't define it can be only felt at most of the times even in bad times u can understand it more but u can never define it
chooe me if u like m y ans
2006-11-21 07:23:16
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answered by Anonymous
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Well. the true meaning of friendship is, two or more than two person who stand by together every moment of time for each other without caring of world's comments
2006-11-21 09:39:55
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answered by sumi_decent_mercy 1
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Friendship is one of the most important parts of a young person’s life. Most every young person spends a great deal of time with companions: going to movies, roller-blading, playing sports, swimming, and listening to music. In school, students quickly group themselves into friends at the beginning of each year. Since young people invest themselves so much in their friendships, they should be required in school to reflect upon the nature of these important associations.
To help young people understand their friendships, teachers should engage them in the following Socratic dialogue. First, the teacher should ask young people to define a friend. Most likely the students will say that a friend is someone you like to be with, or to hang out with, or someone who has the same interests as you. The more thoughtful students will say that a friend is someone you can count on.
Then the question becomes whether a friend is a good person and whether friendship is a good thing. The students will answer universally "yes." So, then, can bank robbers be friends? Here the question gets a little tricky. If they say yes, then we must ask whether bank robbers can be good people and remind the students that we said friends are good people. If the students say no, then we have to figure out the flaw in our logic from the beginning. (Realize that bank robbers hang out together, have the same interests, and rely on each other. Yet bank robbers are not good.)
To solve this conundrum, we should consult the classical authors on friendship. Cicero defines true friendship and Augustine shows us the danger in false friendships. Cicero in his dialogue De Amicitia (On Friendship), a work that used to be widely read in schools, agrees with our own students that friendship is an important human experience. In fact, he regards it as "the greatest thing in the world." Nonetheless, he defines friendship more exclusively than our students might. According to Cicero, "friendship can only exist between good men." He further defines "the good" as "those whose actions and lives leave no question as to their honor, purity, equity, and liberality; who are free from greed, lust, and violence; and who have the courage of their convictions."
Therefore, according to Cicero’s more exacting definition, bank robbers can never be friends. Cicero further says that a true friend will give good advice, even correct a person when he is doing something wrong. In other words, a friend is someone who causes you to do the good and keeps you from doing the bad. The question now is whether our own students really have friends or merely acquaintances.
St. Augustine reminds us in his Confessions that groups of young people do not always pursue the good. As a youth he and some other boys stole pears from a nearby orchard. He did not need the pears because he had plenty of his own. He did not eat the pears but instead threw them to the pigs. When he reflected on this event years later he concluded that he only stole the pears because he was in the company of other "ruffians." Had he been alone, he would have never done so. A few years later, Augustine made the acquaintance of even rougher youths known as "the Wreckers," a gang that would enter into schools to disrupt classes. Augustine never took part in these antics but at the time was ashamed that he did not. Today’s students when asked to explain Augustine’s state of mind will readily recognize his desires to be the result of "peer pressure." They, too, will have been enticed to do vicious things when in the company of their peers.
Indeed, whenever students break the rules in school or disrupt classes by whispering or note-passing, they rarely do so individually but usually in small groups of two or more. These small pockets of disruption are not groups of friends but groups of wrongdoers. Schools and teachers, then, should use the lessons from Cicero and Augustine to be clear on the issue of friendship. They should encourage students to have true friendships. True friends study together, play sports together, and talk together about seemly things. When necessary, they keep each other in line. On the other hand, schools should not permit the outbreaks of false friends, the Wreckers, to hinder the great task of education.
2006-11-21 07:21:01
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answered by a-soon 2
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Friendship- that is such a beautiful thing that $ cannot buy
Its trust,love,care,fun,joy,despair all lump into one.
betrayal is out of dictationary
you will know that you have a good friend when both of u sits together side by side for hours without talking and you move away feeling thats the best conversation you ever had.
FRIENDS Forever .......how great it sounds
2006-11-21 07:13:04
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answered by Anonymous
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It is when a person is always there for another person. No matter
what the situation may be. It is when two people share everything
together, through good times and/or bad times.
2006-11-21 07:12:09
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answered by Anonymous
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A True Friend loves at all Times...
2006-11-21 09:17:01
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answered by Musician 2
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friend ship means
f-forgiving
r-rewarding
i-intimate
e-ever-caring
n-not letting u down
d-dare to be with you
well buddy there is no deff 4 this word unless it is in dictionary
u share a relationship with one u wish,trust
that relation is known as friendship
2006-11-21 07:31:22
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answered by jaison_firebolt 1
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There is no defination for friendship it's all abt understanding respecting people.
2006-11-21 07:14:10
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answered by anish2good 1
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