Do you believe that friendship is the most important relationship in our life ?
By Extourmed
@Extourmed (191)
Bulgaria
April 12, 2012 12:22pm CST
I think that friendship is the most important relationship in our life, because true friends can do the unthinkable and will stand up and support you where no one else will. They will also dare tell you to your face what no one else will either so they keep that check and balance in place. When you are sad, and cannot tell family members, friends are your best listener. Friendships can turn into love relationships, but they are friendships at the start. I personally find it easier to talk to my friends about my worries and anything in general, rather than my partner or in some cases my relative. My friends don't judge me.
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11 responses
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
13 Apr 12
I think friendship is one of the most important things in our life. But if taking the blood relation and love into consider, I can not sure that friendship can be the most important.
Till now I do not have to make a choice between a friend and my family members. If in a hard situation, I think I will help my family member first then try my best to help my friends. As i do not have any relationship till now, i do not know how important a lover is.
But I know life without friendship is abnormal.
@Extourmed (191)
• Bulgaria
13 Apr 12
That's true life without friendship is abnormal, but I think that if I have to choice, I would choose friends, because friends are always like you family, and family is not always like your friends. And about a lover, I don't even consider it. I would never choose a lover over my family or friends - NEVER. Lovers are maybe for day or two, mounts maybe years, but friends and families are forever. That's why the hard choice is between these two. Every family is different, but we are hipoteticaly speaking. You don't chose your family unlike your friends. Your family can be serial killers , pedophiles , whatever they are, you can't change them. They can hate you and trying to destroy you and still you have no choice. That's why I think friends are better.
@longbangod (1785)
• Philippines
12 Apr 12
In a way yes. But you see, there are also relationships wherein good friends at the start but become best enemies later. I know of some friends who have closed friends before but now they don't even talk to each other.
Though of course, friends, true friends are hard to find. But when you find them, you'll have someone to lean on in times of problems, someone to turn to when you are in pain. That's why its so nice to have one.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
12 Apr 12
this is a good point you bring. it's not too good to have too many friends. i only have two that i have had for many years. we have stood the test of time and history. i can say they are friends. longbangod is right though, they can cause you so much joy through their love, but when it's time to feel that same pain from their love, it hurts just as deep.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
13 Apr 12
I am a happy senior, with a Great family! I have been a successful farmer all my live and have made a place for my son and grandson, who are already successful farmers. I have a winter home in Texas where I live for 5 months, before returning to Canada for the summer months.
However after reading this Post I'm wondering if I've missed something? I never get sad! I have no friends to talk to about my worries! Should I have worries? What if I have no worries to talk to the friends I don't have?
I think friends are something to worry about, nothing more, nothing less!
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@zaskasahagun (346)
• Philippines
13 Apr 12
i think it is important. but the most important is the relationship we have with God. i think it is the most important of all. if you have good relationship with the Lord, everything else follows. you'll have good friendships, relationships with family and others. so i think it is the most important aside from friendships that we establish.
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@a270825 (40)
• China
13 Apr 12
yeah,in my opinion,most of your ideas is right.i think friendship is one of the most ralationshipin our life,like others say,family ralationship is very important too for us.a friend in need is a friend indeed.friends is our wealth, and family is a portion of ourselves.
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@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
13 Apr 12
In my opinion, ideally, friendship and love is equally important. These are people who choose ourselves, and they complete us. If I was forced to choose, it's not like I would definitely choose friend/love, but I'd choose the one who doesn't make me choose.
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@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
12 Apr 12
i agree with everything you said. some people think that friendships are not as important as family, but i think it's good to keep the worlds separate. friends are a different kind of family. they are part of your extended family. it should be that way. you don't always need the kind of love that is going to care about you so much that they end up criticizing or brown bagging you for the way you feel. i love my friends, they can be there for me in ways that family and friends can't sometimes. sometimes family can actually be the problem. lol.
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@shylade (3132)
• Philippines
13 Apr 12
true friends are very important to us, apart from our family, they are the person we can count on in times of needs. a true friendship is hard to find and you can be friends to all people around you but only two or three can be your true friends.
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@chrisica_angella (138)
• Philippines
13 Apr 12
I agree!! Being an independent individual, I seldom spend time with my family. And even I have their numbers, we seldom text as well. Friends on the other hand, you can talk to them for hours on the phone, and after that chat with them on facebook, make arrangements regarding parties, etc. You share all your worries and happiness to them and those are the things I don't do with my family. I believe in the saying that "friends are the siblings God forgot to give us”. I guess they really are but God works in many ways. He still managed to let you and your friends meet in a random place at a random time. Just like the song "Got to believe in Magic" it says "tell me how two people find each other, in the world that's full of strangers" .. :D
