The Meaning of Friendship

            What does friendship mean? Friendship is usually surrounded by positive words like loyalty, forever, and comfort. These are generally the most common elements people think of in any exploration of friendship. Friendship can certainly contain these attributes, but upon closer analysis it also includes a more complex array of other elements as well. A more sophisticated and refined definition of friendship would include not only a portrait of its enduring, permanent (meaning), but also of its likelihood and compassion as well. A more comprehensive picture of friendship is important if we are to properly estimate the value it holds for us as human beings. .
             We have to be careful not to over-emphasize the idea that only true friendships are forever. For example, in elementary school, there were many of us hanging out, running, and playing with our little friends. We believed that our life would be boring without playing with each other every day. However, now that we have become adults, we mostly don't remember who our little friends were and how seemingly indispensable they were. There are only a few of us who still remember those friends who we played with and unbelievably, stayed in contact with each other since that time. It is a fact that people change and friendships that were once appropriate and meaningful can fade away when one or more of those people involved go through changes. This compassion of friendship .
             should not negate the authenticity of the friendship as it once was. .
             It is often believed that true friendships are always comfortable, if that of true friendship is true because it is comfortable. True but some friendships seem very comfortable and reliable. However, in order to maintain a true friendship, there are also many sacrifices that need to be made. It takes lots of effort in different ways to keep friendships with many different friends. Sometimes sacrificing our own personal interests would be one way to do it.