In our lifetime, we make all kinds of friends, the good, the bad, the truthful, the fake, the list goes on... but they all play an important role in shaping ourselves as we grow up, more importantly, teaching us what kind of people we wish to gravitate to and what kind of people to veer away from. This is a process of finding real friends.
Real friends last forever and like other scarce commodities, are not easy to find. People who open up their heart to each other tend to cultivate this special connection, developing deep channels of trust. As difficult as it is to develop such trust, it can be broken in a split second, for whatever reason, and the path to social resonance becomes a little bit more lonely.
I sometimes think of friends like this..
The difference between eating healthy food and junk food. In the short run, junk food gives us immediate pleasure, but we quickly come to realise how junk food deteriorates our health and that healthy food is the sustainable way to go. I always thought that we should despise junk food because of what it does to us, but in truth it does little harm as long as we eat them less or in moderation.
Not exactly the wisest of analogies but what I am implying here is, worthy friends are like healthy food, they might not seem appealing to you all the time, you may not even keep contact with them regularly, but in the long run, they always end up being the most reliable people.
Imagine you're in deep trouble, you're going to turn to your close friends for advice. Being truthful - something we afford only to our best of friends, is the only way both we and our friends can truly understand each others problems. It's also the only way they can figure out how to assist best in times of need.
Unworthy friends? Well, we don't need to do anything against them because they also play a vital but reduced role in our lives too - kinda like junk food!
The combinations of different tastes in food make a dish tasty overall. Much like friends who have differences. Friends stay together because they value the differences and their differences can make the relationship stronger when chereished by all parties involved.
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A good friend like healthy food can also benefit a lot
I agree with you on the difference between junk food and healthy food. But sometimes, where you are determines the kind of food you get. For example, office lunch time, all you can get around there is just junk food. But nevertheless, healthy food is always the best.
I enjoyed this post. I agree with you that real friends are not easy to find. Awesome comparison of friendship to foods.