Friendship

            
             Throughout our life we get involved into different kinds of relationships. Some relationships we cannot choose like family ties. These are relationships we are born in, such as mother and father, brother and sister. Other relationships are not forced upon us but we do not have complete control over them, like we fall in love with someone. We do not choose whom we want to fall in love with, even though we do choose the situations that makes it possible for the feelings to appear. The third kind of relationships is friendships. Friendships we can be involved in are the most important kind of relationships. One of the reasons is that we can choose our own friends, unlike our families. But what kind of friends we choose, depends solely on our characters. Friendships bring out the best in us, and a man without friends could never find out the best in him. A true person would never choose to live without friends even if he had all the other goods of life.
             We tend to consider people friends, even though they are not close and do not spend much time with them: fellow students, neighbors and even the mailman. They might not be close friends, but they are friends in some senses of the word. Although they are friends that are here today and gone tomorrow, they are important because they are our connection to the rest of the world. A man cannot be self-sufficient without a friend because he would be missing a key component to what a self-sufficient man should have. Emerson's philosophy about friendships is in his friend, he sees the reflection of himself, and he discovers new sides within himself that he would not otherwise be able to find. The friend becomes an extension of himself. They would be two souls dwelling in one body. Every time I did something wrong that I didn't know, my best friends always are there for me and tell me what my mistake is. They are just like my mirror.