What is friendship?

Question

I have been trying to discribe friendship in terms of what it is. The problem is that I keep hitting a wall, I can discribe what friendship (i.e. best friends, great mates, etc.) looks like (what it does) for example a friend is there for you when you are down but I can not for the life of me discribe what it is. I am talking about unselfish (true) friendship here.

A though hit me a little while ago that friendship is a form of love (the hebrews called it ahgarpah [AH-gar-pay] I believe) that we feel for a person after spending a bit of time with them. But this then leaves open the door for other questions like 'If friendship is a form of love then what it romantic love nothing more than a biological drive to reproduce dressed up by our society?' Questions that are hard to answer whitout a starting point.


So my question is what is friendship, not what it looks like but what is it? AND If frienship is a form of love what does that say about other forms of love?

Please explain your answer.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

friendship is a unique and very positive bond, typically between two people but it can be more than two. It can form instantly when two people meet, or it can develop over a long period of time. Friendship absolutely free, because each Friend eagerly chooses to be with and to help the other with no strings attached, nor are they confined by any boundaries. Yes, friendship is love, but as you love your siblings, your parents, and your faithful dog, there is no underlying biological agenda.

Answer 2

You are thinking way too hard. In middle school, I only had room for one friend. There are always acquaintances. As an adult, I have several true friends. We may never get to see each other for months at a time because we have jobs and kids but a phone call every fer months is all we need. A real friend does not need to be brought along with compliments and lunch dates if the time is made to touch base occasionally. Your segue would take way too long to explain. You are friends or you aren't. I listen and remember the stuff my friends tell me, I am there for birthdays and childbirth. I call when I can, they don't get all bugged if I'm a busy mom.

Answer 3

It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy.

These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave.

Being able to trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.

Remember when you were young and went with a friend to her grandma's for the week-end. It was fun but when you got home, home was wonderful. Your feeling was "I'm home. I can relax now."

That's what a friendship should be.

You go out into the world and do your best. You have your ups and downs, your problems and triumphs, your fun and tribulations. You charm and you perform.

Then you come "home" to a friend. You can relax, put up your feet; you are relieved. If you still have to be charming and/or performing, it's not a relief.

Friendship is a comfy situation like home. You get home, kick off your shoes, relax and sigh, "Ahh, home."

Answer 4

I think friendship is a form of love as you described, but some love is greater than other love. Any love in family should be a sort of friendship. To me, 'romantic' love, whatever you have with your 'soulmate,' or any of that jazz is some sort of infinite love, where for whatever reason this person is above all else and doesn't need to have anything to do with lust.

Answer 5

lamrin's answer was long but worth reading and understanding.

so often we mistake acquaintances to be friends because of attachment.

allowing yourself to be open and aware you will learn that there will be very few people who will be friends.

friends do not judge as they know you and have an accord with you. definitely you love friends and the difference between 'friend' and 'partner friend' is adequately described by the phrases
to love someone is what you feel with a friend to be in love with someone is to love them as a friend with a deeper accord which allows you to live together.

peace and tranquillity.

Answer 6

Friendship is a connection between two people,
You can call it love, caring, feelings, emotions, chemical attractions, spiritual connections.

But it comes down to a connection.

We have a similar connection with our partners. husbands, boyfriends. etc. But this is also stepped up with hormonal connections which comes into the connection of reproduction exercises.

My partner is my friend and my lover. (i say) so i express that i have more than a sexual connection i have a friendship as well.
Blessings ALD

Answer 7

Friendship simply is the state and experience of not being alone. It is not having any excuses to wall your friend off. You cannot say you've been betrayed or abandoned so you are bound to being WITH this person in life.

Friendship is the Withness of life; Those who are on this journey with you whom you have no excuse to break away from.

Answer 8

Make one agree to share your thoughts.U allow him/her to teach u in need. A path open to learn. U want to express yourself to this world through a media like him/her.This inshort i tried to define about friendship. Another friendship grows inbetween humanbeing and materials ( like book). In narrow mean it may be said that friendship grow inbetween a creature and this earth( like an ant likes to settle in its poor clay home).Pl.I stop here.Thats very long to describe here because friendship is not associated with physique.

Answer 9

Friendship is like a bond between one person and another. They understand each other well.

Answer 10

yes, i believe its a form of love. its the gladness of seeing that persob. its one soul dwelling in two bodies. its the mutal agreement and understanding. yup, definitely, the mutual agreeement and understanding btw 2 ppl.