What is Friendship?

Friendship may be an easy word however it carries a deep means.They sharing joys and sorrows at the same time as well. Friendship is one of the precious gifts to our life. Friendship is a basic thing for human beings need in their life. Life would be lonely and gloomy without friends beside us because they affect our life more then we have ever thought. For example, Ali, M (1942) American professional boxer said “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.

It is not something you learn in school. If you have got not learned the meaning of friendship, you actually have not learned anything”. Friendship have benefits toward us such as friends can decrease our stress level, improve our self-confident and also able motivated us becoming a healthier person.

One of the benefits of having friends is they will decrease our stress level. Having friends by your side lend to help you to forget all the problems you have and makes our life brighter and to bring joyful and comfort because friends give us laughter and make us forget all the harsh and negative things in life that they are facing.

For example, by Amanda C. (2011) release an article on 28th November 2011 about Best Friends Can Help You Beat Stress, Study Finds. It is stated that the researchers make some survey and they found during an unpleasant experience, the kids who were with their best friend did not produce as much cortisol as kids who were not around a friend during the stressful time.

The result shows that “A child’s close friends can be problematic and lead them astray, but they can also be incredibly positive and supportive,” said Karen Majors, education scientist with Barking and Dagenham Community academic scientific discipline Service.

Other than that, the other benefit of friendship is improving our self-confidence. Friends will give spirit to overcome fear by face it head-on. From article by Dr.Irene S.L (2011), the friendship doctor, it is stated that friends can support our efforts to grow. Friends typically see strengths in us while the other people unable to recognize ourselves. Friends give us the encouragement and spirit to try something new or do something better. Albert Camus (1957) found, “Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend”. As a friend, we must always beside our friend and supporting each other.

Furthermore, friends can motivate us to become healthier. When we have social support, we become more to keep up an exercise plan more than a year after starting it. As an example, from happify daily release an article about why friends make us happier, Healthier People by Abbasi Jennifer. It shows that people who are lonely tend to have high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease and they are more easily to give up or quit trying to deal with a stressor such as illness. Friends also can support wards off depression and suicide. Jenna Glover Ph.D. licensed psychologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado said “When we have close friends who exercise, save money, or volunteer, we are more likely to also engage in those same behaviors””

In conclusion, friendship can give more benefits in our life. There are two types of friendship which is good and bad. Good friend is a friend that lead us to the right way while the bad type of friend is a person who in charge to lead us on bad path. So, everyone need to be careful when choosing friend in their life. Friend is not only person that can make us smile all the day, but friend also a person that can give us motivation to do any work in our life and also make the work easy to pass. According to W. Clement Stone (1902), “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them”.”