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Friendship is the most fabulous relationship of this world. It remains fresh like the cool morning breeze and clear like the flowing water of a stream. It has the power of protecting you against the harsh and rough gusts of the miseries and pains of life. A friend consoles when you are broken and shattered. He/she pulls you up when you need a push. A friend means a companion, a well wisher, a consoler, a guide, and helper.

The main components of friendship are love, care and trust, which determines all the assumed roles of a friend. It is basically a unique combination of all these three elements. They weave friendship into a single string of pure and glittering beads. Without them friendship is like an empty vessel. A friend is the one, who loves you, takes care of you and gives you confidence and trust.

Everyone longs for love. It is a feeling that even melts the most rigid hearts. We can persuade people better through love. It works as a soothing balm for the dejected souls.The love of friends is selfless. It doesn’t demand anything rather it gives a lot. It is this love that keeps friends bound. This love flourishes the bond of friendship. It gains everlasting strength and power.

Care is another component of friendship that further strengthens its edifice. It is the basic requirement of all human beings. Everyone needs to be looked after and pampered. Friends always care about you. They share your joys and sorrows. They provide you comfort with their presence and make you feel elevated and exalted. They are a constant source of delight for you. You share the same interests and hobbies. They illuminate your life with their witty remarks, naughty pranks and humorous stories. Friendship demands great care. You must care about the trivial needs of your friends and must make sure they are appropriately catered for. Good friends always sacrifice their interests for the interests of their friends. They are ready even to lose in order to make their friends win. They celebrate the most important occasions of your life like birthdays, New Year, cultural and religious festivals, valentines etc. all your celebrations are incomplete without them.

The most significant component of friendship is trust. It won’t be an exaggeration to say that it forms the base for good and everlasting friendship. Trust is faith. It determines the trustworthiness of someone you consider to be your friend. When you believe your friend, you trust him and it is this trust that encourages you to reveal and disclose even your top secrets to him. You prefer sharing your ideas, opinions and plans with your friends. You turn to them in times of trouble and turmoil. Lucky are those, who have trustworthy friends, who stand by them through thick and thin. Trust in friendship brings you closer to your friends and you never feel lonely when encountered by the tests and trials of life. Your heart remains contented that your friend would provide you comfort under the dense shady tree of his friendship. This trust makes your life easy.

Thus it can be concluded that friendship incorporates love, care and trust that make the most essential components of friendship.

Hi! This Naheed Haq from Pakistan. This is my article about friendship. I hope it will entertain my audience.

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Old friends. Ahhh! Is the feeling you should have when you think of a good friend from years ago. You should have the feeling of happiness, joy, fun, and a good feeling of nostalgia. I am a Life Coach and my belief is that you should not live in the past, always look to the future. But when having good old friends, I believe you should be able to reminisce with laughter and smiles.

I have a good old friend that I have known since the 10th grade. We have been friends for 27 years now. When we were younger, we spent almost everyday together in the summer. We enjoyed shopping, going to the town pool and then in the evenings roller-skating. The summer of ’81 is one of the best we shared. We had such a blast, that we still talk and laugh about it to this day. Its great to be able to look back on those times good or bad, that we shared, and reminisce. The reason I mention this is because, even though we shared so many of the same experiences then, we are now living totally different lives. She is married with four children and I am single with no children. Though our lives are so different, we are still the best friends we were then. We hadn’t actually seen each other in a few years, although we kept in touch. Most contact was for birthdays and to share special occasions.

Last summer, we decided it was time to meet for lunch. What an amazing experience. When I arrived for lunch, I recognized my friend even though she had her back towards me. We had almost the same hairstyle, the same type of shirt and the same big smile that we always had when seeing each other. It’s amazing how similar we are. Since then, we instant message each other on a regular basis. She is currently helping me out by editing some of my work. She is a blessing to me. I am so glad that we kept in touch and am now even closer. She has recently asked me for my advice on self-confidence so that she could start a new job. I am here to help her, as she is there to help me. And we continuously learn and reshape ourselves through this help. So take my advice and look at the good old friends you have. Focus only on that part of your past, and enjoy a good chuckle.

I believe that you should never look back on the negative past, only the good past with friends. It brightens your life. So keep those friends and enjoy those memories! She is so very special, that I will always remember those memories. I’ll say it again, that we look back with enjoyment and laughter and it helps us through tough times. We can still make each other smile even when no one else can. I hope that she knows by now that she does that for me. Its great to know that we can be there for each other in times of need. I love those memories and will always cherish them. She is my best medicine and I am confident that I am hers. As a Life Coach I instruct people to never live in the past but to use the positive aspects of it to continue on or learn from.

Remember that there is nothing more special or wonderful as the memories you share with a good Old Friend. I suggest that if there is an old friend that you haven’t spoken to in a while you should contact them now. Don’t forget to share the good times you had in the past. Making a phone call or emailing is a great way to reconnect. If you are missing that old friend then take that first step. Remember, Old Friends Are the Best Medicine.

Marion Licchiello is creator of Get Motivated with Marion, a company that helps to change people’s lives on a daily basis. She has helped numerous men and women transform their lives over the years through changing their focus, creating a new mindset, visualization, hypnosis, fitness counseling, nutrition counseling, 1-on-1 personal training, seminars, workshops, and 1-on-1 coaching. She coaches over the phone, IM or in person. She keeps in contact through emails also. Her mission in life is to help others through her own experiences. She is in the process of writing a book about self-improvement. She is interested in your stories of how you changed your negatives into positives. She practices and believes that “Whatever you focus on is what you get” whether it is good or bad. She changed her life through visualization and focus and she knows you can too!

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