In this cruel world is there such thing as a true friend ?

Me, too do not believe such thing as true friend...I can mention as an example of what happened to my brother. He got so many friends around, in their office, in our community and everywhere. But, during the time he lost his job, all of them were gone. Either hang their phone, too busy for a small talk or email chat. Now that he started to his new job, some of his friends are starting to show up....This proves that the saying "No money, No honey(or friends)", is more correct than the saying about true friends.

It is really a cruel world if you are the one who do not help you to whom you consider yourself a friend... If a friend in need, then help if you can but if you need help then no friend you consider will help you - well, that's gonna be a problem... with them, not you... They will come a time they'll be needing help again... That's where you going to think twice... What do you think we call is that? Friends with benefits? It is really a cruel world if you do not help...

I would have said yes a couple of years ago. However, the old saying that when you go through stuff you find out who your real friends are - is true. I have to wonder with you if there really is anything such a a true friend...

Well your title of the discussion itself says how much you have been effected by your friends. Dear,you have to be very careful before making friends and after making you have to study them and move along with them in the way they are acting.Of course it is not easy until one experiences something negative - this is called experience. Yes - you have to learn so many things from your experiences. I do not make friends....Only talk with them and leave over. I only make friendship with that unknown who really helps me at the time of difficulty.

busybee is completely right. Only experience teaches you to decide who will be your friends and decide what kind of a friendship it will be (a true friendship or not). I kno I've had true friends in the past.. but that is perhaps because I am young, and true friendship is much easier to find when the thoughts of a person are not yet set in the material world like in adults. I do believe that it is possible to find a true friend, but it can be perhaps one of the most difficult things in life. All you can do is, like busybee said, study them and decide whether its even possible for the person to be a true friend.

I think that doesn't go the same with me. I have a lot of friends in everywhere I've lived. The question is how do you acts and responses to others? I mean it's depend on you, and maybe when it's really such "cruel world" you mean, then you just have to be patient and keep helping each other till you find a good friends.