2.No.5 Write an
essay
on How to make
friends"
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The first step people take in trying to make a friend is to meet a potential friend through what most people call,” enforced friendship. After the initial meeting, the person starts to evaluate them and determine whether or not they think they should be his/her friend.
It is not easy to make friends. Real friends are rare in this world. Man is a social animal and instinctively seeks companions. We come across countless people but with everybody we do not make friends. The essential condition of friendship between two persons is affinity of mind, tastes, temperaments or pursuits.
We can make friends if we love people, if we are good and sincere to them and if we share their joys and sorrows. We are to make friends if we do to others as we would be done by. Friendship is a matter of give and take.
There cannot be all the ‘give’ on one side and all the ‘take’ on the other. Equal sacrifice on both sides is a pre-requisite of friendship. True friendship is possible only between two equals in age, similar in thoughts, views and achievements. An old man seeks the company of an old man, and a student that of a student, a fat man that of a fat man and a pious man that of a pious man.
We should not be soft-spoken flatterers who say what will give pleasure only, irrespective of whether it is true or false. We must speak out the simple truth, however unpalatable it may be, if it is for the good of others. We should always be sincere well-wishers of others, never sweet- mouthed sycophants.
To attract friends, we must ourselves be attractive. We should have a trustful nature. Trust alone begets trust. We should open our heart to a friend, holding back nothing
Secrecy is the poison that always destroys lasting friendship and so we must have no secret from a real friend.
We must be tolerant and forbearing. No man is all good. If we are always fault-finding, it will produce a feeling of natural irritation. This leads to estrangement. It is only when friendship is tested by the trials of life that faults may be pointed out without creating ill-will.
We must cultivate a spirit of harmony and proportion. We must not be too exacting. Having won a friend, we must nurture friendship with love and affection, we must constantly tend it with acts of kindness. Our aim must be to serve more than to exact, to give more than to receive. What is given must be without reserve, what is received must be recognized as a privilege.
A true friend is an unmixed blessing. He sweetens our life, heightens our joys and lightens our sorrow. Even death cannot separate such a friend from us. Friendship is like the sweet scent of the flowers of different colours and odours in a beautifully decorated vase.
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