Making Your Friendship Permanent

Friends are those who last with you forever; those who sail by are just acquaintances.

Quite often it happens that we have a change in our circumstances and lose our “friends”. It happens when we graduate from college and go into the outside world, leave a workplace, or move to a different city. But, think about it – if you lost these people, were they really friends in the first place?

No, they weren't. They were merely acquaintances. And, judging in the same coin, if you let these friends slip away, were you a true friend to them? No, you weren't. For what kind of a friend is one who lets great relationships wither just for no reason?

It is not necessarily a change of circumstances that can make this happen. You lose friends for no apparent reason whatsoever. People call it a part of the growing up process. But then, this is not how friendships must be at all.

You have to make sure your friendships last forever.

Even if you move away, you must send that one cherished letter, card or email their way which will bring back warm memories in the minds of both of you. Nowadays, things are made so much simple with all the online options we have. We actually don't have any excuse for drifting apart.

Along the way, you will meet a lot of new people. Many of these people will seem more fascinating to you, but does that mean that you should lose out on the people that you have with you? Should you ever outgrow your friends? Well, if you do that, consider this – how would you feel if your best friend joins a new class and starts hanging out with those guys, forgetting you?

But, friendship actually goes beyond all that. True friendship is above just meeting and hanging out. It is about keeping each other in mind. Even if you have physically drifted apart, do you keep thinking of your friends? Will you criticize them in front of other people for things you did not like about them? Does their birthday still make you excited? These are parameters of lasting friendships.

And all that depends on the things you do with your friends right now. It depends on what you share with them. It depends on how much you are there for each other. The closer you are right now, the more difficult it will be for you to drift apart. The more difficult it will be for you to “outgrow” each other. Don't keep back from expressing yourself. If you like something that your friend has cooked, compliment them on that openly. If tomorrow you do go apart, they will remember you whenever they cook that particular dish again. Probably they will remember you so much that they will call you and you might meet each other again. If just a single compliment can rekindle the flame of a lost friendship, just think how much an entire body of conversation can do to make friendships everlasting.

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