Friendship is a relationship between people that is not backed by any benefit, that is, completely disinterested. Yes, today, it is hardly possible to find a person in the world who does not understand the meaning of the word friendship, but there are many manifestations of friendship, which are sometimes difficult to understand.
When in the kindergarten the kids begin to play hide and seek together, share toys and go for walks holding hands - this is the first manifestation of friendship. People learn to be friends from early childhood, preserving this ability until old age, and sometimes they don’t even think about it. And what is friendship? Communication between people, human emotions, feelings and constant readiness to support, talk, help. It arises on the basis of mutual understanding, common views and characters, and can develop into a strong respect, mutual affection and a fairly strong emotional connection.
Friendship is somewhat akin to love, only here we are talking mainly about communication between people of the same sex. If two women are friends, they share experiences, console each other and give advice. Friends can go shopping together, share good news, and seek solace in heart matters. However, there is a variant of female friendship, which occurs temporarily, due to the need for both women. Such an alliance will last as long as its members need each other, after which it will disintegrate, as if it had never existed.
Male friendship also has the right to life, and, for unknown reasons, is considered much stronger and more decent female friendship. But do not forget that here everything also depends on the individual perception and the people themselves. Men build their relationships a little differently than women, hence the misconception that they know how to be better friends. However, in the history of the relationship there are any number of examples of a long and strong friendship between two women, and a short short partnership among men.
A very interesting topic is heterosexual friendship. For a long time it was believed that between a man and a woman purely friendly relations were impossible by definition. And even if one of them pursues exclusively platonic goals, the plan of the other certainly includes something more. In fact, such friendship is really possible and even has the right to exist no less than same-sex. And if two people understand each other, can comfort and support and do not dream about sexual contact, does it matter what gender they are? From the same point of view, one cannot be friends with people of non-traditional orientation only because you can inadvertently become the object of their sexual interest.
Friendship is one of the key points in the social relationships of people. Normal communication does not always turn into friendship, but if you can boast of an interesting warm company and good friends, it’s much easier for you to live in the world, because you have the most important value - human communication.