The Importance Of Friendships

A popular saying about companionship is “True love is forever”. Another saying that pertains more to these stories is, “Rare is as true love, true friendship is rarer”. Friendship is a state of mutual trust and

Close friends often have a major impact on the choices that people make. A close

The friend that the author Marion Winik thinks is the most important is your Buddies. In Winik’s essay she says “Buddies, for example, are the workhorses of the friendship world” meaning they are the ones

Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) observed children’s friendships by asking a number of children to write an essay about their best friend using the approach called “content analysis”. William Corsaro however dictates that in order to study children you must study them in the context of their own peer culture, he used the “ethnographic approach”. In this essay I shall attempt to compare and contrast the approach used by Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) and that taken by William Corsaro (2006).

When times are hard one just thinks of their dream and pushes forward in the hopes that they are closer to grasping it, but in reality, often times dreams cannot be attained despite how hard one strives for them. In these tough days, it is the friends around that help, comfort, and support us. Companions are there to lean on in times of despair and to celebrate with in moments of jubilation. Without this, it can seem hard to proceed on with life if there is nobody to look to when needed.

Throughout our lives, we find that we just aren't ourselves without a companion, someone to watch our back, someone we can talk to through rough times. Sometimes when we find ourselves lost in life we go to some of our best friends in search for some advice. Its just the nature, the nature in every living thing that pulls us towards a specific companion’(s), to help us complete the journey that is life. Life is not so easy without a friend, the feeling of loneliness that some of us were lucky enough to never come across. Just as shown in Of Mice and Men, a novel that shows what good a companion can do for you in life.

The most supporting aspect of their companionship was their encouragement to one another. When one of the friends faltered or showed weakness, the other reinforced fearlessness and reminded them of their friendship.

Various people refer to a friendship as a violin. The music may stop every now and then, but most importantly, the strings last forever. A friendship may have its ups and downs, but a true friendship should never perish. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men illustrates the importance of a close friendship, and the dependability that comes along with that relationship. Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosophers, wisely said, “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than a true friendship” (Aquinas).

“It’s not where you are in life; it’s who you have by your side.”–unknown. Companionship is friendship and having someone you can trust. For us this quote means that companionship is very important in our life. You to have someone you can trust.

Friends have a unique impact on each other and their bond is made with the struggles or

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.

Another reason many people chose to have companionship rather than being alone, including myself, is that friends offer different view point to situations that are clouded to us. When a group of people come together and exchange their thoughts, many ideas are obtained which open our eye to see what they see or believe is right, challenging our opinions and helping us to learn from one another. Several occasions, when a person is confronted with a problem they are hesitant of which course of action to take, they go to a close friend or companion to get reassurance and help them chose the “right” course of

• In the video The Purpose of Friendship, the main point is that when friendships seem boresome the problem is because there is a lack of purpose. Though there is no problem with having a purpose it doesn’t make the friendship less, it just makes it more. There are four different purposes that friendships may hold. The first purpose is networking; networking is useful for obtaining jobs and how to get to know people because a person is small compared to the world. The second purpose is reassurance, reassurance because the world is a scary, intimidating, and upset; people need a close friend to talk with to reassure them that they would be fine. The third purpose is for fun, a person who can be silly and child to help relieve stress. A person to go along and be carefree with because the mature adult world is very stressful. The fourth purpose is clarifying our minds, a friend to help advance a person’s intellect. Help a person reach an understanding that their mind did not think of. The clarifying friend helps guide with questions that lead to the answer.

I feel that frienships are more important to our psychosocial well being during emerging adulthood than romantic relationships are. While Erikson describes this stage using the word intamacy, other theorist use different words for the same human need: affiliation, affection, interdependendence, communion, belonging and love. All theorist agree that adults seek to become friends, lovers, companions, and partners. While many emerging adults

Friendships are special relationships that begin the development of social skills in each human person. Every time we open the door to form new friendships it begins with an experimental and holistic practice of philosophy and science. Whether we recognize the use of philosophy and science or not it’s being applied to shape friendships. The formation and bond of friendships has been studied for many years through science, philosophy, and theology. The point of this paper is to give the point of view and purpose of friendship according to science, philosophy, and theology and how it is applied to our everyday life.