On Friendship
... Basically, the friendship is a so-called glue for our entire society. ... Friendship. ... In European civilizations, friendship is generally born out of mutual profit. ... Building a friendship has similar characteristics. One meets a person and plants the seed of friendship. The friendship builds and continues to grow stronger. ... The struggle to keep a solid friendship includes many obstacles and hardships. ... As Bernard Wolf quotes ^It takes a long time to grow an old friendship. Friendship has its good and bad times. ... Compromising and persistence rebuilds the friendship and is once again reestablished. As Socrates once said Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art ! ... The friendship is blooming and is finally on its peak. ... If building a friendship can be compared to planting a garden then perhaps some of its frustrations and problems can be better understood. The true meaning of friendship is achieved by understanding its relativity to planting a garden. A person who builds a friendship as planting a garden can overcome the obstacles of it very easily. ... Friendship and planting a garden can both be said as give and take.