How far are you willing to go to keep hold of a friend?

I will do almost anything for a friend. I will not do anything special to keep a friend except be a friend. I will not fight to keep a friend, no one should have to. "With friends like that who needs enemies".

just like they say that it takes two hands to make a clap , it takes two friends to make a friendship work , so i would rather say that i will go to some length only because if he/she doesnot want this friendship , there is no point in wasting time . only when both step forward can a relationship work.

Depends on the history and if they really are a true and close friend, acquaintances come and go but real friends to me I will move heaven and earth to keep! Friends are very important to me, I will always keep in touch even if I don't see them for months and months, a text will suffice to let them know I'm thinking of them. I have lost good friends in the past and I have learnt mistakes and I vow to make sure I do not lose my friends in the future, but things do happen where you 'just drift' apart.

you can never keep a true friend w u unless your friend would also like to be your friend. it takes 2 to tango dear... take things as they are, if they choose to be away/keep out of touch w u then we must respect their decision...i don't force people to stay w me if they don't like to stay....i just thank the higher power for making them a part in my book of life & cherish the moments & lessons learned from them. i'll still keep intouch w them, hey but at the end of the day, it's still their call... hope u have tons of friends who decided to keep in touch.... be happy....

this is a bit complicated it depends on what friend and in what stage he is and i am in our life if it is a good friend i will do anything to keep hold of him cause i know that he is in a difficult stage..it had happend to me and the friend had thanked me for not giving up on him in difficult times..i know my friends will do the same for me and are doing but if it is a friend that just do not feel like investing in ourfriendship cause he dosn't really gives a _________..i will let go

When it comes to friends, I would do almost anything... My friends mean a lot to me.... And if ever there will come a time that they need me, i'm 100% available..... I'd even fight for them... If they're on the right grounds....

when younger, i keep friends and i try to hold on to them for as long as i can. but friends to really come and go. even if i wanted to hold them, they are the ones letting go of me. and so, i release them from my life. usually, it gets up to my nerves when some friends do gossips about me. why not tell me straight about things that they hate about me? there's no need to gossip around. that's not a real act of a friend. so, it's when i let go. there are friends, too who only remember me when they needed something from me. and after sometime, i let go of them, too. they aren't worth fighting for. as of now, i have one bestfriend in my life. she's been with me through thick and thin for 12 years. and i don't think i'll ever give her up.

I would go pretty damn far t0o keep my friends..they are everything to me..They are like my family..some I even consider and call my family..I do have one friend I miss with all my heart..and we had been friends since first grade..and we got in this huge fight over nothing..i mean nothing!! And we are both 2 very hard and bull headed people..and its been 3 yrs now.,.and we havent talked to each other..I am afraid to make up..even though it wasnt even my fault the fight happened..but then i think she was the one that was rediculous...ahhh//.im just ready to suck it up and go after her..I miss her more than anything in this world..So i will swallow my pride and i think im gonnatry talking to her..Soo for me..this IS the hardest thing I have ever done..or gonna do..and if she says Bug offf..i tried..right?

I have tried very hard to keep hold of a friend but sometimes no matter what you do it does not always work out. Sometimes the other person just does not want to continue a friendship and feel that other things in life are more important. I have tried calling, writing, emailing and text messaging old friends but they never respond back so there is nothing more that I can do. Sometimes you have to let go but I always try and let them know that I still want to be their friend.

I do try to save the relationship if there has been a falling out, but how far I would go does depend on the situation. For example, if I try to email or call and they wont answer me, I can only do that for so long, I have to eventually give up. But I might ask a mutual friend to talk to the person if I think it would help, or I might not again depending on the situation. But I never just give up at the first sign of trouble unless what they did was very bad to me, and that has only really happened to me once in my entire life.

More often than not and maybe all the time (i'm trying not to be too extreme), i don't fight to keep friends simply because I always imagine that if we get to become friends again after my much struggle, my friend will have no regards and respect for me and would want to take advantage of me, so I just let go and move on.

ya i will also try to keep my frndship for a long time but if something went wrong somehow i believe in forgetting those things.

friends are meant to be 4 ever but ppl chanege can u cant stop them frm doing so cuz the world makes em change and sumtimes u remain the same ...well probably if the person i know has changed alot then hes a diff person and not my frnd ..if he has not changed and still is the same person i will risk evrything to protect him/her cuz frnds mean it all to me

I will go pretty far to get ahold of a friend, especially if it's someone that I hadn't heard from in a while. I recently finally heard back from a frien who I'd been trying to get ahold of for six months. It turned out that her mother was very sick and she had to go home to take care of her. I'm one of those people who believes that frienship means a lot, so I'd do a lot to keep one alive.

I would do anything for my friends. I don't recall ever having to fight to keep one. My friends have never left me, so I've never had to save a friendship. But my friends all know that Ill drop anything for them if they are in trouble or if they need me. They all would do the same for me, too. That's why we are friends.

Hi, I think it depends on the type of friend you have and how long you have been friends for. For my best friend I would go to the ends of the earth for her, we've been best friends for 12 years and been through a heck of alot together. Other friends not so, I have another friend who I've been mates with for around 20 years now, we're not close but see each other about twice a year. She's a fair weather friend and as much as I like her as a friend, there are plenty of things I wouldn't do just to keep her as one!

As a military brat, we moved alot. As a result I went to 13 schools in 13 years before my dad retired. I can't say that I am still in contact with any of them although I do miss several from the school I graduated from. I always disliked making new friends & then moving, but that's the way it was for my family. I've had several long time friends since then, mainly because I can stay in one place for much longer now, but it still hurts when one moves away. I have done a better job of keeping in contact with my friends as an adult, but some just can't be retained forever. The best we can hope for is to have been a friend for a while & hope they remember us fondly. Enough to look us up again sometime in the future maybe. I found it very encouraging recently, to see just how many of my grandmothers long time friends still visit with her, even now, and she's almost 80! Friendship is what you make of it. Build a strong friendship based on mutual interests and it can last as long as you both share it. :)

Sometimes friendship is like a graph, it has ups and downs. Its a natural flowing river as it may seem. We all just need to go with the flow. It breaks my heart when some friends turn to other things. I still don't see the point of this?! It always happens, so maybe that's just part of it. That in every down u just need to think that everything will come back to its place after reaching its turning point. But stil, you need to put effort in saving it -just not too much intervention I guess?!

I love friendship and I prefer to hold them all my life. Friends are real and true assets in our life. Making friendship is not so difficult but holding them for a log is! I've a big family of friends through Yahoo messenger and 360. They are 150 + 108 still, but I keep in touch with everybody. They mean a lot to me. All of us feel so proud being friends besides a miles apart or even didn't meet together in real. It is not worthy ot fight with friends for silly reasons. Loosing a friend from our life with our fooly is really worse than loosing a million dolors. Wishing our friends daily is one good thing to hold them. We should be first to share all their joys and sorrows. Supporting friends in down time is very important and friends are existing on earth only for this reason. Never try to hurt friends or make them sad. If we really keep our friends holding tight together, that is enough and fruitful our life ever. I am lucky to have many precious friends all over the world.

If that is my mistake i will try my level best to get back to the person. And if the person is being carried away with some other things or person all i can do is cling on to my friend as much as i can. I can't force them and i am not supposed to lead them. I am not supposed to teach them or tell them what they should do and what they shouldn't. If some one does a mistake and hurts me it depends then, if they confess to me i may get normal in no time. Instead if they regret to talk to me though knowing that it was their mistake i will try to talk to them and resolve. Even if things doesn't change then every thing is out of my hands.