Friends in our life!!!

I don’t know why today I have the desire to write about the role of friends in our life, may be because I have been rewarded by meeting great ones recently or may be due to work commitment I have to move to a new country and will leave some great friends shortly.

The first challenge when moving to a new place is making friends. Fighting loneliness and the difficulty of making new ones help us realize how important are friends in our life and how to appreciate the good friends that we have, who fills our life with happiness and joy.

A friend brings out the best in us and often knows us more intimately than any other in our lives. With friends, we are free to be ourselves without judgment. 

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”—Anais Nin

Sometimes the problems we face in life is a very good tool to "Screen" our friends to know which ones are true and which ones are not. Surprisingly you may come up out of these problems with new friends who leave a real mark on your life. 

That's why I keep saying that making friends have nothing to do with who are those friends; but how you find them by your side, up for help when you need them and listening to you when you would like to express yourself; that’s what real friends are there for.

But true good friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget; making them nowadays is not an easy task and always require a lot of time if one is selective and looking for real friends regardless of age, look, money, social status ... etc. Many people will walk in and out of our life, but only true friends leave a real mark in our hearts. 

I do believe that we should take our time in making new friends as  friendships are like flowers, they grow with time and can stem into something very beautiful; and If we don't take care of them they will wilt away.

And in order to take any friendship further, we need to be up for help when required, we have to be all ears when our friends want to talk and we have to be the one our friends turn to when their spirits need a lift. It’s a treasured gift, especially when it's unconditional. Regardless of life stage, success or failure, when someone has your best interest at heart, is loyal to you and always maintains integrity with you. That’s a treasured friendship.  

A message to all of my friends who might come across these words someday; you all have filled up my life with great moments that will be remembered always, I was blessed to have you all in my life and you really mean the world to me.