Articles on Friends | Topics: friends, friend, friendly, friendship
by Wanda Acevedo
Why is socialization important in your life? Why is it important to make new friends? Friends provide much more than someone to talk to. Friends are mirrors that reflect different parts of your character. There may be times when you do not like what you see and may end the relationship, not realizing exactly why you are doing so.
At other times, friends enter your life and you pause and notice that this new individual reminds you of someone you knew in the past that you no longer have contact with, for a number of different reasons. There are also times when friends enter your life and stay for a short period. They are in your life to help you through a difficult period or maybe to celebrate a special event or progress that you are making. When these types of individuals enter your life, they will all of a sudden leave. Either you or they sever the relationship. This has no reflection on your character, it simply means that the reason they entered your life is now complete. This article will look at some of the reason it is important to make new friends and what happens if you choose not to.
We cannot simply stay with a select few throughout our entire lifetime. If you chose to do this, you would miss many wonderful life events that the personality and lifestyle of new friends would bring.
Friendships come and friendships go for very good reasons. Not all friends are supposed to be in your life forever. Many times, they come in during a time joy to celebrate our life's journey or they may come during a time of grieving or crisis and offer support and love. When the event is over, you will notice they are no longer in your life. Either your or they severed the relationship. You may not have realized why at the time, but if you look back at your life you will see a pattern occurring.
Meeting new friends gives you the ability to decide whether or not you want a particular person in your life. You may have already gone through what this new friend is going through and you can be a support system or you can decide that is not what you want in your life right now. Meeting new friends and socializing does not mean you have to accept every person that enters your life, it does mean that your life can be enhanced greatly with their presence if they happen to be what you are looking for in a friendship.
There will be others that you will meet whether you intend to or not and feel as if you have known them all of your life an instant bond, an instant knowing. They may stay in your life throughout the duration or maybe they will not, but your life will be richer because of their presence.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
| —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954) |
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If you do not make new friends, how do you truly know whom you are? How do you know what is good and wonderful about you, if there is no one in your life to be a reflection for you? How do you know what qualities could use some modifications if there is no one to reflect back to you that a certain behavior is unbecoming? If we only live in solitude then the picture of the world that we see will be distorted as will the view of ourselves.
How does your life affect other individuals? If you do not go out and take the chance of meeting new friends, there will be many people who will not get the positive influence of your presence in their life. They will miss out enjoying your sense of humor or the way you view life. They will not be able to share in the knowledge that you have gained throughout your life. In addition, if you do not go out and take the chance of making new friends not only are you missing what they can offer but you are also causing them to miss what you have to offer them.
Many friendships are developed very early in life. There are those who may not have had the opportunity to develop friendships in a safe and productive way and for those who have had trauma it is difficult to trust that someone would want to be their friend without any strings attached or without the desire to harm or defraud them. Then there are others seem to make friendships everywhere they go. This is obvious in the school systems from elementary through college years. There are kids that everyone wants to play with and then there are those that sit under a tree and watch everyone else they are too afraid to enter the game of life. If this fear is not corrected while they are still children then this same fear will carry over to their adult life and they will not be able to benefit from the knowledge, love, and understanding that are an important part of making friends.
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