The Importance Of Friendship By A Friendship

My parents are my heroes, and they inspire me everyday. Migrating to the US a year before I was born, they traded a comfortable life in Vietnam to work long hours at low wages in America in order to give their children unimaginable opportunities. Growing up, I was not aware of the sacrifices my parents made, but knowledge of them now gives me all the reason to be forever grateful for them and everything they make possible. I can never fully repay my parents, but I can do them right by doing the best with all I have got.

Two people of different ages and genders can form solid friendship, which becomes their spiritual dependence and compensates their lacking of emotional care. Also, the end of friendship further demonstrates the importance of it. This paper will focus on Okyō and Kichizō’s friendship in “Separate Ways,” by Higuchi Ichiyo, and Park So-nyo and Lee Eun-gyu’s friendship in Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, to analyze the form and end of their friendships.

I owe everything I am to my parents. My dad and mom are the most wonderful parents anybody can ask for. They are very hard working people that have reached all of their goals and I’m extremely proud of them. I call them my superheroes. One of my strengths is that I am very open to learning new things.

The purest of the friendships is the complete friendship. This type of friendship is rare, as friends like these are uncommon. The parties share like-minded views and wish good on the other. Each of the people care for the character of the other, and they share both pleasure and pain. It continues if the good and virtue of the friendship survives (168). The main component in the longevity of the complete friendship is firm foundation in trust (169). Trust is the basis for genuinely closeness. Utility is not the priority in complete friendships, and the reciprocation of loyalty and admiration make complete friendships so rare.

Friendship is often cited in criticisms of impartial consequentialist moralities such as utilitarianism. (Hurka) According to dictionary.com, utilitarianism is the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility, and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons. Friends are essential in life because they are there throughout the good and bad times. They are there to bring out the best in you, such as being there to help you achieve the goals you have set and inspire you to be the best person you could be. Friends prevent loneliness and they also help improve your self-confidence and self-worth. Knowledge, achievement, and virtue are also quality goods that a friend

My parents are my heroes because they don’t give up on me and always push me to be great.

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Friendship is the “bond between people who’ve made a similar commitment and who is possible therefore share a similar destiny” (Lickerman). Friendship is significant in everyone’s life. Humanity needs friendship in order to survive. It’s almost impossible for someone to never make a friendship. There is always someone out there that is similar to you.

This poetry anthology is focused on friendship. The selected topic is important to me as I believe in having a large group of friends who all support each other.

“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” (Wyse, 2007) We all need friends. Friendships are very essential in our daily lives. If we did not have friends we would not be happy. We would be very lonely. They keep our heads on our shoulders. They help us to be strong in the hard times and have fun and relax through the tough times. I believe that everyone needs a really close best friend.

Sometimes it happens that even a small thing tends to destroy friendship and at times even a small thing can help friends get closer to each other. Ginigrey reports that many times it happens that friends, like angels, enter the lives of individuals at a time when they are needed the most. They come in at a time of great difficulty to help, provide moral support, but as soon as the difficult situation comes to an end they tend to fade leaving space for some new friend to come in (1). It doesn't matter for how long the friend stays in the lives of an individual, rather what matters the most is the coziness, pleasure, sustenance and camaraderie that friend has provided. Even though the term friend is spoken differently in many languages, every language connotes this priceless liaison in a similar manner and that also in a positive way. For instance, in French it is termed as amigo, in Danish it is called as ven.

Furthermore, the qualification of the virtuous friendship aims to use the similarities of the friend as a moderator, which would benefit the agent in their pursuit to achieving an intermediate state of virtue. The closer the similarities are between individuals, the better they can moderate each other’s actions/desires. Ideally, if one of the individuals were to act out of line, their friend would respond accordingly and put them back on track. However, presuming one of the individuals in the relationship are good since they would remain similar in their virtue, there ought to be a sense of urgency to aid their friends, for the sake of the friend. Arguably, if the virtues of the friend were to change sporadically or gradually, the right response of the loving agent would be to adjust their behaviour to aid the friend through whatever situation they are undergoing. Significantly, empathy becomes a key requirement for an enduring friendship, because it demonstrates we can positively react to our friend’s change (and vice-versa). Insofar, the use of understanding is used to comprehend particular features of the situation (250), and it is aligned with the good intentions of helping the friend. Significantly, if the agent is capable to comprehend what has caused the change to their friend, they ought to re-ensure their peers that they will be supportive through their endeavours/changes. Insofar the significant virtue of friendship is the act of loving (128 section 4, line 36).

C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings are bursting with stories of friendships that warm our hearts as readers and offer us an invitation into the narrative. Friendship played an important role in Lewis and Tolkien’s works, and can be seen as an invitation to participate in their stories. I would like to propose in this paper that friendship in myth is a vision of the ‘already, but not yet’ age that we live in and that Lewis and Tolkien’s stories can impact how we live out our own friendships.

An influential reason why conational students spoke with people from their culture was because of the fear of rejection from their students of their own culture when mingling with those from another. Brown described the situation that one Taiwanese student who enjoyed conversing with other students was in, as Brown writes, “X said that he is here to mix with the British and other nationalities, not speak his mother tongue… He said that the rest of his Chinese class mates don’t like him, because he doesn’t hang around with them” (Brown, 2009, p.191). Therefore, jealousy is one of the primary emotions that exist in this context that can terminate a friendship. In an arena where friendship is based on loyalty, not only between person to person, but also a loyalty to a nation’s culture, any attempt to sway from group solidarity is viewed as disrespectful. Additionally, Beer and Gardner express that paradigmatic friendships are relationships where each party “not only knows this of the relationship, but also knows that the other knows it; this suite of interconnected characteristics means that friends can count on or trust one another, which thereby becomes relevant to their actions and strategies” (Beer and Gardner, 2015, p. 426). In this sense, there is a clear understanding why many international students are friends with those from their nationality – there is an automatic resonance between their emotions that cause an outpour of sympathy and empathy which call for affection

It feels like there is an empty hole in my heart. One minute you have this magical friendship, the next thing you know it all disappears.This ride we had together just came to a complete stop.One of my best friends just moved away and it really hurts. I’m not one to share feelings or anything, but this event feels like an illusion of horror.