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Are your Friendships Serving their Purpose in your life?
The term friend has in recent times been hijacked from its original meaning. Nowadays, the word friend is shallow and loosely thrown around. On social media, Its as simple as sending a friend request to a stranger after which they are referred to as friend. But may I remind you today that the chief purpose of Friendship is actually proper and mutual support? So if you call someone friend, there must be a practice of palpable and current (Not expired)mutual support between the two of you.
Today I want us to evaluate who our real friends are and why they are in our lives at the moment. The sad truth is that if some of us actually took time to evaluate our friendships, we would realise that we have few or even no friends. Most of us may be under an illusion of friendship at most when there is no friendship at all.
You see, a friend is someone who is there for you and vice-versa. They may be an all round friend, meaning that their support encompasses all or most of your life’s aspects or they might be a friend who renders support in one area of your life while you do the same for them. Now if they used to render support and they no longer do, in essence, they used to be your friend.
Let’s consider the following three points:
