It is said that life is the unique combination of success and failure,
smile and tear, sweetness and bitterness, brightness and darkness.
Hence, it can be said that duality is the real truth of life.
During the course of living life, a person meets many other persons.
The person forgets some of other persons. The person remembers some of
other persons as required for personal and professional necessities.
The person considers one of the other persons very special.
Slowly and gradually these two persons become very important for each other.
Both of them enjoy each other’s company.

They feel happy to help each other whenever needed. They share happiness
and sorrow together. As it is said that duality is the real truth of life, these
two persons experience sweetness as well as bitterness from each other’s
behavior. However, they try to ignore the bitterness and enjoy the sweetness
from each other’s behavior. They trust each other and try to be faithful to
each other. They feel happy to be honest to each other. They feel happy to
be affectionate to each other. Happily, they establish very close relationship
with each other. Such close relationship with mutual affection and
extremely strong interpersonal ties between two (or more) persons is called
“ friendship.” The persons who maintain such relationships are called
“ friends.”

There may be many forms of friendship, but in all the forms of friendship,
it is assumed that friends should exhibit certain characteristics, such as
caring, sharing, loyalty, commitment, mutual affection, mutual support,
sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, mutual understanding, compassion,
mutually helping behavior, forgiveness for mistakes, and mutual trust.

The following circumstances are considered significant to increase the
possibilities of formation of friendship:
*if two (or more ) persons meet repeatedly.
*if two (or more) persons stay near to each other and spend time together.
*if two (or more) persons have opportunity to share ideas, emotions,
personal information, and personal feelings with each other.
*if two (or more ) persons belong to same sex, age, race, and ethnicity.
*if two (or more) persons share common background, occupation,
interests, and vision of life.

Pen-Pal and Internet Friendship
Pen-pals are the friends who make friends mainly through mail
correspondence, however, in modern time, internet friendship
is growing.

To love and being loved is one of the greatest desires of human being and
friendship is one of the best medium to fulfill that.
According to conventional wisdom, good friendship enhances happiness
in the life of people. Good friendship brings positive effects on many
aspects of social development of people. Good friendship gives sweetness
and pleasant experience in the life of people. Good friendship is indeed an
asset in life. Good friendship brings peace and harmony in society. By
promoting good friendship, we can promote nonviolence in the society.

Aristotle wrote, “The excellent person is related to his friend in the same
way as he is related to himself, since, a friend is another self; and therefore,
just as his own being is choice-worthy for him, the friend’s being is
choice-worthy for him in the same or a similar way.”
Some people pretend to be friend but terminate friendship as soon as their
Selfish desire is fulfilled. Therefore, we should always remember and
Practice the great saying “a friend in need is a friend indeed.”

Blog By Sanjay Kumar Sah