Friends
Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are. That’s right, birds of feather flock together. If your friends are thieves, then you are a thief too or well on your way becoming one.
Being on friendly terms with some people does not make them your friends; they are mere acquaintances. Granted, some better acquainted than others, but still only acquaintances. Friendship is something much deeper. One can almost call it a platonic love affair.
Your neighbors are not your friends. You know them due to the proximity of your dwellings. When you meet by chance, you greet each other and maybe exchange a few words just to be civilized.
Your colleagues are not your friends; they were bestowed on you by your employer. You communicate with them because you need to in order to fulfill your duties. Unless you meet regularly outside working hours, you’re not friends; only colleagues.
The other members of your sports team are not your friends. Neither are the pals who regularly drink with you in the pub. I smile when I see somebody referring to on-line ‘friends’. We’re not friends; we are correspondents. Look how often some of us disappear without trace. Is that how friends behave?
While it is perfectly possible to have one or more of any of the above people as friends, they do not become that automatically. Friendship develops and evolves at its own pace. If it is not on, it will soon die a natural death.
Unlike your family who are yours by birth, you chose your friends because you like them and approve of their way of living. You respect and trust them enough to invite them into your home. Your friends are almost more important than your family. You will be judged by your friends. Your friends will make you… or they will break you.
As they say, if you sleep with the dogs, you wake up with the fleas.
You have a great day!!
Comments (25)
As dereza bushes,
Words (We often to them are deaf!):
What your friend, such and you.
But the way is to consider sins
More simply than simplicity:
"Tell favourite verses -
And I will tell who you are!
I have a good few acquaintances, but only a few people I call (and actually want to call) friends. I'm lucky with my family, I'm close to them. I trust my family and friends and know I can rely on them as they on me.
Making them my friends doesn't mean I agree on everything they do or say though.
Stay Blessed
The wrong friends can only spell trouble.
Hm, ok but surely you won't have a thief for a friend, would you? I mean, I'd be to scared to invite a known thief into my house.
Well, the probably don't sleep with the dogs.
I think I may be weird. I have friends for different seasons and reasons some I can trust some I can't. Define me? Hmmmmmmmm. Scary thought.
People here, in the virtual world, are only acquaintances with whom we might have some things in common and exchange correspondence with.
I would never call them my "friends", unless we had some personal contact outside this site and we had been talking for some time, with the intention of meeting at some point.
To be honest, I can say I have made 3 on this site - one of which is a special dear friend and we have complete trust for one another.
As for my other friends here in Spain, I have a couple of very good ones (one man & one woman) who I can rely on at all times.
Theres true friends, (rare), and then there are those people who are at your side ,for their gain and nothing more,
And I m starting to complain,
You have a Good Day,
How much space on your bed? Or maybe a larger kennel will do.
Maybe that is why I have so few friends. Not complaining though. Those I have are solid gold. If I don't like their ways or if I don't trust them, I avoid them. I learned my lessons early when it comes to friends.
Hmm, it's the same here.
I'm lost. What is a pamist?
I have a few black sheep in my family too. I cannot deny them but I sure avoid them as far as I can without being rude.
I have a few of those hanging on the fringes but I don't don't them as friends. Parasites are plenty in number all over.
Must be like being in heaven with no thieves around. Here your ears will be stolen if not firmly attached to your head.
I am still not in need to forge strong online friendships,but I know there will be a time,I will want to pay a courtesy visit to someone or another.
I only have few female friends in my life,we knew each other before together went to primary school and then middle, high school... At that old time, we were limited talking to boys,so I am still puzzled how to keep pure friendship with them...
That is what friends are; people that you trust and respect.
There are 8 people I call my friends. Six of them are friends since our school days and the other two are also of very long standing.
Oh we had our differences and had some hard words but the friendship always survived.
A few others have drifted in and out through the years, but none survived for any length of time.