A friend in need is a friend indeed

Friendship is a bittersweet part of life that carries our different versions throughout. Some friends stay, and some break apart in distant familiarity. 

The friend who came and sat beside you in the first class might not be the friend you leave school with, but every friend holds a unique place in our hearts with the gift of time and companionship they provided.

No matter how long a friendship lasts—a whole year or life—we cherish it to improve the world. Friendship teaches us that we can rant for hours beyond our different ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing and not feel pushed away. 

Why do we need friends? Is there a list of requirements for them? Can anyone be our friend? Questions can arise endlessly, and we all must have some necessity from a human relationship, even friendship. Applying our very own ‘If this, then that’ formula, 

Being there

Sometimes, actions speak louder than words, and when a friend is in need, all you can do is be there for them. People remember for years who was there in their most vulnerable times and who was not.

In friendship, only someone’s presence counts the most for a person. Be it a happy occasion or the saddest one, we always look for a friend to hold our hand or pat our shoulders by saying– “Everything is going to be okay!” Even strong pushovers such as “Buckle up!” in a difficult time give us more power to continue without breaking our existence into small pieces. Humans have always been social creatures; we can do nothing to oversee it. No matter how strong we think, there will always be a time when we will look up to see a friendly smile and be okay with our being. 

Taking care of each other

As friends, all we can do is have each other’s backs even when the world seems hostile. Everyone struggles growing up, and almost everyone feels tired occasionally. Still, after hurdling with our routine work and personal lives, we look for a face to connect with.

Friends are often family outside of the boundaries of family. A true friend knows the value of taking care and being cared for. In the uncertainty of life, friendship offers us some reliability that, in the end, everything will work out for something good. And even if nothing does, we always have someone to share our failures with.

Comfort

The best of our friends can be met on the worst of our days. When life throws lemons after lemons at us, we have those few friends who can help us make lemonade.

Sometimes, just an hour of comfortable silence can take our burden away; a small text message can help us know that there is someone to lean on. 

Building trust

Trust is often said to be like a mirror and, once broken, cannot be mended. Even then, we love to put our faith in people we call friends and share our deepest secrets with them.

We know there is a chance our trust will be broken, but that does not stop us from doing so because the heart needs to speak out occasionally. Building trust with friends lets us lighten our moods and hearts to prepare for future challenges. 

We all read or were referred to the story of two friends and a scary bear in childhood.

The moral of the story was something we learnt through experiences in life. Now, it does not require memorizing as we have realized that a friend in need is a friend indeed. 

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