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It is the world of 21st century where everyone has become so busy and have indulged so much in their personal and professional life matters that they hardly get any time to spend with people around them.We have become so lost in the race of earning more and more that we have almost forgotten about our relationships. God has blessed us with many different relationships on this blue planet and one of the most beautiful of them is " Friendship ".

A friend is a person with whom we dont have a blood relation but still they occupy a meaningful mass in our life and friendship is a relationship with ties friends together.Friends give us an outlet to vent out of frustrations and get a break from our hectic life schedules.Being with friends allows us to put our mind on a different plane.We become free of the day-in-day-out routine and its unavoidable problems and chillin their company, They are the one we are open and close with and share our matters easily with them.

Furthermore, friends helps us to shape our identity and thats the most important thing we can ever have in life. Infact, the only thing we can call our own.Friends are actually those , whom we blindly belive and trust over.

Over the years, friends shape the person we become.Our attitudes, likes and dislikes are all influenced by our peers.

But more than that, friends give us happiness, memories and meaning in life. We can gain name and fame at any walk of life with our strength, potential, efforts or hardwork but not friends, because they are like ballons, once you let them go so you cant have them back.

Its all to easy to be caught up with studies, career and money making rat race that plagues modern day society and forget our friends. They often seem to take a distant back seat when they start getting neglected but often in realtiy , friends help is reach our goals and realise our ambitions.

Our parents and siblings can also be good friends for us but we all factually need our peers to to share our secrets and tensions with. Friends helps us to sort out our problems or at the very least, help us get it off from us.Like an adage problem shared is a problem halved. A dilemma shared with a caring person (that's a friend) will shed fresh ideas on a solution. We also learn from friends. The sharing of knowledge , opinions and reviews about different books, friends also commenr about different lessons and subjects at school. This, in case, is also a lane for enhancing our mind power and general knowledge.

Sometimes, we just want to tell someone that we are alright. There is no better way to tell you that " you are a great person ", then simply having someone who is wanting to spend more time with you and share some of life's experiences with you. A true friend is not the one who is there with you always in your cheerful moments, happiness or celebrations, but also when you need someone to wipe your tears off , when we want to tell someone that we are'nt ok, when we require a hand to help us walk easily, when we need concern in times of our illness and we need a shoulder to cry openly.

' Only a real friend will tell you when your face is dirty '/ That's why it is said that if you want to know someone, look at their friend.

We often become so preoccupied with study and all the activities at school and home that we neglect our friendships. I hope that my above extract impresses upon you the importance of friendships that will take us beyond school and into our adult lives, It gives advice on how we can maintain our friendships. Friends give you oppurtunity to truly enjoy life. They help give meaning to everyday existence (for example- an sms or e-mail from a friend a day makes you feel good }. Most of all, they give you thing that everyone strives for – happiness.

If you take steps to make time out for friends, you will find that relationships, school and work all seem to come into clearer perspective, and oyur time spent doing these things will be more focused and hence more productive, and just maybe, more enjoyable.

To give up the people who made you who you are, is something that you'll look back on with regret. Friends give you true meaning in life.

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