Friendship

Symbols and Traditions of Friendship
The Shared Symbols and Traditions of Friendship
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies". - Aristotle Friendship is one of the most divine gifts of any relationship, it is a unique blend of affection, loyalty, love and trust; a shared spiritual bond between two individuals. By using the traditions, rituals and symbolic gestures of friendship, we can strengthen these bonds and stay connected to each other across a lifetime... This Lens Was Created for International Friendship Month!

Celebrate National Women's Friendship Day
A Special Day to Celebrate Women's Friendship
On the third Sunday in every September, you can celebrate National Women's Friendship Day. Like many other women, my female friends are precious to me and none more so than Sylvie, my best friend for more than 37 years. It doesn't seem possible we have been friends for so long. Perhaps this year we will celebrate our friendship on the Sunday in September designated for the purpose. The picture above shows Sylvie and me in the mid 1970s. Sylvie's on the right and the little girl in the middle...

Celebrating Friendship
What friendship is all about
Friendship in so many ways is like marriage. It is a relationship that needs to be nourished. It needs trust in order to survive. It must be based on love in order to last. Friendship can end if not nurtured. It can bring happiness, hurts and pain. Friendship needs devotion and commitment from the parties who enter into the relationship. Like marriage, friendship can either be lasting or shortlived. Friendship is not just a feeling but a decision, and like marriage, friendship can make or bre...

The value of friends
Lean on me, when you're not strong. And I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on.
Update; I wrote part The Value of Friends on a particularly bad night when my Mom was in the hospital and not doing well. She's fully recovered and home again with me now so don't worry about her.... At any particularly difficult juncture in life, it's my friends and family who prop me up and keep me sane - I certainly know The Value of Friends. As I sit in a hospital lounge chair (do you now how many nalgas died for this chair.....?), at 2 am, as my darling Mother labors for breath, I opene...

Books On Friendship
Find a Book About Friendship
If you would like to buy a book about friendship, I've gathered the best rated books I can find on Friendship, Women and Friendship and how to Help Children Make Friends. Friendship can be a springboard into deeper relationships. People without friends or who have difficulties making friends can also have problems sustaining deeper relationships as well. By looking at ourselves and the role we play in our friendships we can effect powerful changes in the way others treat us, and in how we e...

The Gift of Friendship
A Friendship Gift Guide That Was Gifted To Me!
When it comes to friends, what is important to you? The beautiful thing about friendship is being able to share our achievements, our goals and our hopes and dreams, as well as showing our friends that we care about them unconditionally. Making friends on the web can be easy, yet we often hold ourselves back. Many times we don't allow ourselves to become true friends until we reach a certain understanding and trust. Friendship is something that many feel can be made in a close community suc...

A Friend's Compassion
A Day To Remember
Driving home today, I began to reminisce. My mind carried me back to my youth, to a warm Mother's Day in May of 1971, when I was only twenty years old. It was a day that began a relationship with a group of people whom I would learn to love as my family with a love that lived on long after that unity faded. Newly engaged, I was taken to my future husband's family reunion. It was my turn to be evaluated by the "in-laws" and "out-laws" gathered there. With a little luck, I would measure up to ...

Friendship...
Why so important?
Friendship...The only relationship where one is never alone. It adds that flavor in life which nothing else does and it's bound to keep one feeling good about himself. This is one relationship which will last even if its long distance and it allows you to cheat (have more than one friends) so you'd never feel guilty or fear losing anyone. Having friends, you know they'll celebrate your birthday even if they know you're growing older :P lol, and they'll slap you hard when you're about to do so...

Do Not Judge Your Friends
Friendship Advice: Don't Judge Your Friends
Dating advice 101 - Friendship is a wonderful thing. When you create a bond with another person, fantastic things can happen. Sometimes, though, friendships fall apart. It can happen for a variety of reasons, but when friendships go sour, it takes hard work to get them back. From someone who's seen it all, let me give you this relationship advice, a happy friend will keep you happy. One of the most common reasons that friendships crumble into rubble is through judgment and anger. You may thi...

Friendship
"You Stayed" - Dedicated to Sylvia - "Happy Birthday Syl"
A journey from 1979 my journey with you my friend you stayed, Always and forever you have been my side, Throughout all this time you have stood patiently, During times when my life pulled me in a hundred directions you still stayed, We have survived three decades of changes from single girls to married women to the birth of children there you stayed, Through a thousand tears and a million laughs you stayed, We are bonded in a such a way that the word friend is too casual we are sisters, Dista...