What is friendship

What Is Friendship?
Jan Wilson

Friendships are relaxed, loyal relationships that involve intimacy, communication, and empathy. Friendship is a relief. Friends relate.
Friendship is an in-depth, relaxed relationship!
Friends relate.

It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy.

These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave.

Being able to trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.

Remember when you were young and went with a friend to her grandma's for the week-end. It was fun but when you got home, home was wonderful. Your feeling was "I'm home. I can relax now."

That's what a friendship should be.

You go out into the world and do your best. You have your ups and downs, your problems and triumphs, your fun and tribulations. You charm and you perform.

Then you come "home" to a friend. You can relax, put up your feet; you are relieved. If you still have to be charming and/or performing, it's not a relief.

Friendship is a comfy situation like home. You get home, kick off your shoes, relax and sigh, "Ahh, home."

Being able to trust and relax with your best friend is a big part of friendship. Friendships are relationships

But no one can form a friendship until he/she realizes that the basis of being friends is meeting the needs of the other person. One must be a friend to have one.

Never forget that friends relate. Relating is the basis of friendship.

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Forever

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH FOR A STAR AND PLUCK IT OUT OF THE SKY"
BUT IF YOU WANTED ONE, I WOULD NEVERTHELESS GIVE IT A TRY
THERE'S NOT A THING I WOULDN'T ATTEMPT TO DO
IF THE END RESULT PLEASED YOU
I WOULD WISH FOR YOU, EYES THAT SEE ONLY THE TRUTH
I WOULD WISH FOR YOU LOVE THAT NEVER NEEDS PROOF
I WISH FOR YOU A HEART THAT NEVER ACHES
I WISH FOR YOU A HEART THAT NEVER BREAKS
I WISH FOR YOU COUNTLESS MOMENTS FULL OF HOPE, PROMISE AND SWEET DREAMS
I WISH FOR YOU HAPPINESS BURSTING AT THE SEAMS
I WISH FOR YOU TEARS, BUT ONLY OF JOY
I WISH FOR YOU THE INNOCENCE OF YOUR CHILDHOOD WHEN YOU WERE COY
I WISH FOR YOU RAINBOWS TO WASH AWAY YOUR PAIN
I WISH FOR YOU CLEANSING DROPS OF GENTLE RAIN
I PRAY TO THE FORCES ABOVE TO ALWAYS PROTECT YOU
I PRAY THAT NOTHING YOU DESIRE WILL EVER REJECT YOU
I HOPE TENDERNESS WILL FOREVER SURROUND YOU
I HOPE THE MAGIC OF LOVE WILL NEVER CEASE TO ASTOUND YOU
I WISH YOU THE ASSURANCE OF A FUTURE THAT SHINES BRIGHT
I WISH YOU EVERYTHING YOU DESIRE WITH ALL MY MIGHT
I WISH YOU THE PATH THAT ALWAYS LEADS TO RIGHT
I WISH YOU IMMUNITY FROM THE RAVAGES OF LIFE
I WISH FOR YOU THE LEAST AMOUNT OF STRIFE
I WISH FOR YOU A HEART OH SO TRUE
I PROMISE TO ERASE YOUR BLUE
AS PROMISED, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE
AS PROMISED, I FOREVER WILL GIVE
FROM ME THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY REASON FOR AMENDS
AND I'LL MAKE SURE, FOR YOU, THIS POEM NEVER ENDS

Friendship

Friendship is just like the relationship between Eyes and Hand
When the hand gets hurt its the eye that cries and
When tears come from the eye the hand wipes it..

Casual relationship

Casual relationship
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A casual relationship (sometimes referred to as friends with benefits, cut friend, a fling, or fuck buddies) is a term used to describe the physical and emotional relationship between two unmarried people who have a sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting a more formal relationship as a goal.

A casual relationship may be part time, or for a limited time, and may be monogamous or otherwise, and the term encompasses strong enduring friendships between people who enjoy each others closeness but do not seek marriage for some reason, through to relationships purely entered into for sexual purposes. In each case, the relationship's dominance in the lives of those involved, is being voluntarily limited, and there is usually a sense that the relationship is intended to endure only so long as circumstances make possible and both parties wish it to.

Motives for casual relationships vary, and should be distinguished from casual sex in which no relationship is intended. Many casual relationships also include mutual support, affection and enjoyment, which underpin other forms of loving relationship. Some casual relationships eventually do become long-term relationships in the course of time; equally, others were never intended to.

The intent of a casual relationship can vary: sometimes to relieve sexual frustrations through an alternative to masturbation, and other times simply as a friendship or part-time relationship which includes sexual activity when wished. Some people prefer the term "Lovers without commitment". Usually a casual relationship is not intended as a romantic relationship. It is also not the same as 'casual sex'.

In many cases, both parties are free to date and engage in sex acts with other persons, however some people choose to have exclusive casual relationships. These types of relationships effectively give the people involved an outlet for their sexual urges without the potential stress and time-demands of a committed relationship. Two people may elect to become friends with benefits because they are unwilling to commit to a full-fledged relationship or long term relationship for whatever reason.

Popularized in recent years by the US sitcom Sex and the City, this sort of relationship is commonly portrayed as a relatively new phenomenon, but it is not clear as to whether this "newness" applied to the term "friends with benefits" was actually predated by similar yet more secretive arrangements and phrases. These relationships are associated with younger people (early teenagers), and are often seen as a way to enjoy the benefits of sexual activities without the emotional strings of a romantic relationship.

According to many teens, these relationships have been going on for some time, and it is estimated that at least 32% of people over 13 have had such an experience. While providing a sexual outlet for some people, the practice is still socially associated with negative connotations. In teenage relationships, the predominant activity is not traditional intercourse sex, but rather oral sex. Many teenagers believe that this reduces the risks associated with sexual promiscuity such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Some medical authorities such as Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, suggests that teenagers do not view oral sex as "real sex" and use it to remain in a state of technical virginity. [1]

This arrangement is particularly common among young professionals, who put a lot of their free time into their work and therefore don't have time for a "proper" boyfriend or girlfriend. Some argue that it also allows people who have excellent sexual chemistry to enjoy each other, even if they don't click on other levels.

The phrase "friends with benefits" was popularized in the mid-1990s by the Alanis Morissette song "Head Over Feet."

Criticisms

Some people prefer the term "Lovers Without Commitment", as it espouses the view the lovemaking is more than a mere benefit of the relationship.

Others believe that casual relationships of this sort are unrealistic because strong emotions will inevitably come into play. Naturally this belief is typically not shared by those who participate in such relationships. It is generally acknowledged, however, that a frequent cause for the termination of such relationships is the development of a one-sided romantic attachment.

It is claimed by some that it is the male who is most often harmed in this kind of relationship. Being a "friend with benefits" is sometimes an option given to the male in a steady relationship after being broken up with. Many times people who love each other will choose this route because current circumstances prohibit a steady relationship. This kind of situation often leads to strengthened bonds and stable relationships after those circumstances pass. Relationships that have sprouted from "friends with benefits" relationships are most of the time more sexually open and stable in their foundations.

The term "friend with benefits" is often misused. A situation similar to the example used above. "Friend with benefits" has been used in a way that would be better described as an "emotional friend with benefits." An example would be a romance that has lost its spark, both parties want the relationship to work, but it cannot. There is no desire even though they both want there to be, so they decide to wait for the spark, together and apart.

Some people think that these sort of relationships are commonly male-dominated and oriented, with the female existing mostly as a sex-object for the male's gratification. However it seems that the female is often the one who initiates the relationship in the first place. This calls into question whether the females are using sex to gain the illusion of affection, avoid loneliness, or perhaps as a stress release. This theory also fails to take into account that many bisexual or lesbian women will participate in these sorts of relationships with each other; hence, these relationships can happen with no male participation at all. Many women also say that they enjoy casual sex just like men, not having to "mean" anything more about it. Probably, traditional cultural or religious values for women and men also come in as factors here.

Penpals or pen friends

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Pen pal

Pen pals (or penpals or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, in particular in the case of snail mail. A penpal relationship is often used to practice writing and reading in a foreign language, improving literacy, to learn more about other countries and life-styles, and to ameliorate loneliness. Some people remain penpals for only a short time, while others continue to exchange letters and presents life-long. Some penpals eventually arrange to meet in 'real-life'. Penpals come in all ages, nationalities and cultures. Being part of a penpal network can be a way to gain a valuable understanding of the world, and an appreciation for cultures and lifestyles very different to your own.

Many people writing to a penpal are not using their native language in their letters.A modern variation on the traditional penpal arrangement is to have a keypal and exchange email addresses as well as or instead of paper letters. This has the advantage of saving money, but also the disadvantage that the communication is very ephemeral. Many people prefer to receive paper letters, gaining the satisfaction of seeing their name carefully printed on a thick envelope in the letterbox. Using snail mail, it is possible to trade postcards, stamps and anything else light and flat enough to fit inside an envelope.

Penpal clubs can be found on the Internet, in magazine columns, newspapers, and sometimes through clubs or special interest groups. Some people are looking for romantic interests, while others just want to find friends. Penpals also make and pass around friendship books. There is also a non-profit humanitarian penpal organisation, Human Writes through which people all over the world correspond with prisoners on US death row (although corresponding with prisoners is popular, care should be taken to follow the rules).

The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir Foreign Correspondence (1997) about her childhood which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children both in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.

Source wikipedia

Love is...

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Love is...
More beautiful than roses
Much deeper than the seas
Stronger than a hurricane
But timid like a breeze

Real as in a picture
But yet it can't be seen
More beautiful than anything
As vivid as a dream

Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.

Love feels no burden,
thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility...
It is therefore able to undertake all things,
and it completes many things,
and warrants them to take effect,
where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not.
Though weary, it is not tired;
though pressed, it is not straitened;
though alarmed, it is not confounded...

Love is the passion that we feel
inside of our hearts that we can't hide.
We pretend to hide it,
but it burns us more and more
until the pain grows and grows
and it never ends.

Love is...
What makes a weak man brave
And a king step off his throne
Good times, bad times
Easy times, tough times
It comes in an instant
And lasts three days after forever
That's what love is.

Love is not blind -
It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more
it is willing to see less.

Love is like a mountain,
hard to climb,
but once you get to the top
the view is beautiful.

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Best Friends

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Best Friends

best friends may be a chosen friend with whom one shares a deeper level of understanding, trust, and affection than most others one is close to. best friends may be of the same sex or of the opposite sex. It may also simply be the friend whom one feels is closest or most loyal. The term is usually only used by children.

Best friends usually share and enjoy the same activities; in fact, they often meet while doing an activity that they enjoy and this is the common ground on which the friendship is founded. Best friends often trust each other with information that they would not share with anyone else. Often, best friends will be so close that they will consider themselves as brothers or sisters, depending on their sex.

Someone who is a friend of a particular person who has another 'best friend' may become jealous of that person, particularly if the person is older and different genders are involved.

In some other cultures, such as Russia, the term "friend" is strong enough to qualify as "best friend" in the West. See the Cultural variations of friendship section for more information.

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