What is friendship? If friendship is defined as: the relationship between friends, is someone who you just met once or twice a friend? What makes someone your friend? When someone is considered your friend, I feel that you should have at least met him or her in person once or twice.
When someone adds other people online as “friends” through social networking websites and other sites, many of them don’t even know the people they add. Are those people considered your friend or friends? What is the borderline between friends and non-friends? Where does it stop? Are some of us making and considering people our friends too easily?
Sometimes it feels like social networking websites and other sites are forcefully encouraging people to view others as their friends, when they have barely met and known them. Websites always have an “add as friend” button, but they never have an “add as acquaintance” or “add as someone I know” button. The term friend is thrown around and misused too many times now, and the term friend is slowly being degraded to include just about everyone you know that you don’t hate. With the start of the Internet, terms such as friends have lost value and meaning. People are encouraged to view other people as their friends even when they have never met them or tried to get to know each other. Especially with the use of the Internet, meeting people has become easy, and considering them a friend has also become even easier.
A friend shouldn’t just be someone you met a while ago, it should be someone you know and have at least talked with a few times and even seen in real life. Even the terms close or good friends are being misused too much. Many times, I’ve seen two or more people say they are close friends one day, and then the next day they have become enemies or have just become not friends. Were they actually close or good friends? People are just throwing it out everywhere and misusing it.
Real friends should be people you can trust and rely on. They don’t have to be people that you’ve known for a very long time, but they should be someone that you can talk about your problems to. Real friends don’t have to be people who are always there for you in person, but they should be people who are always there for you in spirit. The definition of a real friend differs from person to person. There is no real requirement for being someone’s real friend, but there is a difference between real friends and just acquaintances.
Acquaintances have just become friends, and a friend is just another acquaintance. Real friends should accept, understand, and support each other. So the next time you see one of your so-called friends, are they your real friend, or are they just another acquaintance?
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–taken from my english assignment, written to be spoken, may contain grammer errors–
Songs
MC Mong Ft. Navi – Simple Love
Crown J Ft. Dok2 – I Got You
Verbal Jint Ft. Koffee -사랑을 느낄때 ( i dont know english name haha)
Wilber Pan - Shuang Ren Wu
Flo Rida Ft. Wynter Gordon – Sugar
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Tags: friends, mc mong, playlist, reflection, songs, verbal jint
