MAKING FRIENDS

Friendship is like a tree.
It takes time to grow and mature.

Oftentimes, we hear people say, "it's not easy for me to make friends." Even though we may enjoy and need to be alone now and then, we are basically social animals who need the company and cooperation of others. We need to make friends, to like and be liked, and to form loving relationships with at least a few people who are in some ways special to us. Maintaining the relationship is even harder. It requires more than similarity in nature and tastes.


We all have our flaws and imperfections, but as two people get to know more of each other, these shortcomings will not affect the relationship. Instead, they help strengthen the bond of friendship.


To understand the relationships that people form, it is important to realize that we are not focusing on individual behavior. Instead, we keep meaning to understand behavior between pairs of human beings and the reasons people like and love those they do.

INSEPARABLE - BFF

Inseparable best friends share it all!

Not even Ai Ai and Sharon could equal or emulate the genuine, sincere, lasting friendship of these women.


Best friend... he is yours tonight...


Two young women, best friends, had shared most of their lives together. Since childhood they were joined at the proverbial hip. They traveled together. They shared each other's secrets. And at least once a week for as long as they could remember they spent the night at each other's homes. So when one of them got married, it threw a chink in their chain. That is, until they agreed that they should be both married to the same man. The husband, to the delight of the best friends, agreed to marry both of them.

Will you share your husband to your best friend?

FOREVER FRIENDS!

There is an old saying: "tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are." Does it mean you become what your friends are? How would you like to be identified with your friends?

Friendship is an invitation to offer oneself to others. As social beings, we long to be with others. How does it feel to be with those who make you feel important, stand with you when you are down and troubled, understand you in your most trying moments, but most of all, accept you for what you are?

Friendship is one helpful element in developing your sense of "I belong." It does not only enhance your personal relationship, but tests your independent-mindedness and sense of decision making in spite of peer pressure. Friendship is a two-way street. It will not last long if one does all the giving and the other does all the getting.

Friendliness must begin with us. We must take the initiative in developing friendly relationship.

"A man who has friends
must show himself friendly."

(Proverbs 18:24)

IT'S MY CHOICE, IT'S MY DECISION!

Many times friends have been the cause of family feuds. Many of us find more satisfaction in being with friends or peers. This is so because we think that sometimes parents prescribed so many dos and don'ts, while friends make us feel less pressured. But parents can be our friends, too?

Our friends have very strong influence on us, in our manner of dressing, hobbies, and attitude toward work, studies, and responsibilities. But how do we arrive at a wise decision if there are conflicting demands of pressures coming from our friends and from our own parents? What if these demands are against our own choices or decisions. What would be the best thing for us to do without hurting them, and at the same time independently make a decision that would be acceptable to all concerned.