Friends and Peers

You have stayed up late with them on numerous occasions, drinking and making fun of terrible movies until the wee hours of the night. You have been there for each other with a ready shoulder to cry on as you…
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Who knows where the American concept of friendship began but I suspect it began when time began. After all, here in the USA diversity makes it easy to find friends from a variety of different cultural views on what friendship…
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WHAT MAKES A HEALTHY FRIENDSHIP? A friendship is a dynamic relationship which people enter voluntarily. Friendship can grow and expand or fade and weaken with the passage of time. Friendship is a mutual relationship and requires the attention of all…
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“Happiness is Being Married to Your Best Friend” When I saw this lovely framed saying at a yard sale, my first thought was “Oh that is so appropriate, I’ll get this for my husband’s desk.” I was thrilled that it…
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WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP? Friendship is something that can not be replaced by anything or anyone. A real true to the heart friendship is worth more than having a million friends. There is a big difference in having friends and acquaintances,…
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Proverbs 17:17 in the Bible says “A friend loveth at all times.” When you love a friend at all times, that means you love her no matter what new things you find out about her, no matter what she says…
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True friendship is one of the most important things there is. It is a special bond between two or more people that often defies definition or explanation. There are many different kind of friendships, and we usually have different friends…
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We can’t deny it: our modern world is one of sound bites and short ad spots. While this may give a Martian observer a feeling that this planet is one jittering hive of ADD, one good product of this modern…
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The teen years are extremely critical in a person’s life. This is when we all learn to relate to others, and learn about frienships, and the realities of life. It’s extremely rare for a friendship made in the teen years…
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If we are teachable, and able to internalize the valuable lessons being offered to us through life, the answer to “What is Friendship?” will continually evolve through the years. Friendship can never be summed up in a simple sentence, or…
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As you read this you will probably be filled with anger. But I think the best way to deal with a backstabber is to forgive them. Even if you don’t want to be friends anymore forgive them. Otherwise you’ll end…
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Everything I need to know about friendship, I learned when I was in high school. I was never part of the popular crowd, but I found out pretty quickly that this really did not matter, as long as you had…
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Platonic friendships can be one of the most unstable and unpredictable relationships you’ll ever enter into. A man and woman being “just friends”, is at best, difficult. At it’s very worst, it’s downright impossible. If there is any sort of…
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Love & Friendship Trust me when I tell you that there is a huge difference between love and friendship. I know because I figured it all out the hard way. I loved my ex-husband but we did not have a…
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To me, the minimum cost of friendship is that we must give up a bit of our pride and allow our ego to see through cooperative eyes. Friendship can’t be, “all about me,” so I have let go of my…
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“Love is friendship set on fire.” This is my favorite definition of love, and I think it nails it right on the head. Hearts burn with romantic love, while friendships really only involve a deep ‘liking’ of someone. Love is…
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True friendship is probably the most important thing there is. It is a special bond between two people that defies definition or explanation. There are several different kinds of friendship. You might have friends you like to play sports with,…
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How long do you have to live to count the number of broken friendships in your life? I have asked myself this question more in the past six months. It seems in the past year I have had more breaks…
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Great Friendship Movies “Beaches”The 1988 film starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey is one of the greatest movies ever made about friendship. This movies definitely gets a 4 Tissue Rating. Two little girls meet on an Atlantic City beach. Thirty…
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The entire Harry Potter seriesseems to contain many lessons about friendship. Initially when the book series became popular and movies were released, people had mixed reactions towards the films. Many were worried that these movies would influence their children to…
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Aside from a relationship with God, friendship is one of the highest regarded relationships on earth. You will hear a lot people refer to someone as their friend but in reality, true friendship is rare. A true friend is somewhat…
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This is a hard topic to write on only from the standpoint of definitions. A “friend” is a person who is more than an acquaintance, that you have some sort of relationship with over a period of time. The challenge…
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Making new friends can be very challenging for many people. While some of us are naturally confident and outgoing, others struggle drastically with the thought of approaching a stranger and initiating conversation. However, there are many ways for individuals to…
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We tend to become friends with those people that share our tastes and interests. Therefore, the best place to make new friends is somewhere where you can engage in your favorite activities, share in your likes or voice your concerns….
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In June of 2004, my dearest friend told me she was moving to Nevada to be with her man. I suspected this was coming and I was happy for her, but that didn’t give me strength or comfort. When I…
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Making new friends is easier than people think the key to ever lasting kinship is to meet people who share similar interests and hobbies.Trying to establish a relationship with some one who is the total opposite of your personality can…
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Dealing with a broken frienship is a grieving process. This grieving process needs to be gone through, however, because a broken frienship is the “death” of something that you care about. For whatever reason, your friendship hasn’t worked out, and…
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“We are advertis’d by our loving friends” – William Shakespeare I teach English and recently discussed this quote with my students. After a long discussion we came to determine that one’s true own character can be determined based on his…
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Friendships are an important part of social networks that help provide support while they give meaning to life. Friendships form over long and short distances between members of communities and families while religion, gender, or ethnicity should not serve as…
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We all need true friends. In fact, the experts claim to have proven that healthy friendships are essential to our mental and physical well-being-it actually lifts hearts and lengthens lives. The quality of our life depends upon the quality (not…
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