What Makes A Good Friend – Elements Of Special Friendships

What makes you a good friend? Are you willing to drop everything to help your friends in emergencies and welcome them if they arrive at your home unexpectedly with a problem? Are you a good listener? Can you listen to your friends’ problems and complaints without interrupting them with your own list of troubles? Can you and your good friends keep each other’s secrets?

You need to know that you can trust one another implicitly and not have to worry that your most private and sometimes guilty secrets will be broadcast to everyone in your social circle. Of course, if one of your friends is threatening to harm herself in any way, then you must break her confidence and get help for her in a manner that will not broadcast her problems to the world. If she is truly a good friend, then she will realize that what you did was for her benefit, and that you did it because you care about her.

So, what makes a good friend? Good friends should be able to turn to each other for help in any situation; they should care about each other and listen to one another’s troubles. Good friends can agree to disagree once in a while without harboring feelings of resentment towards one another. But what really makes a good friend is the ability to share life‘s ups and downs, to laugh and to cry together, to be there for each other, and to enjoy the time they spend together.

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