Friendship 2

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does not change the fact that your mother and father, brother and sister, are who they are. Other relationships are not forced upon us but we do not have complete control over them, like who we fall in love with. We do not choose who we want to fall in love with even though we do choose the situations that makes it possible for the feelings to appear. The third kind of relationships are friendships. Friendships are the most important kind of relationships you can be involved in. One of the reasons is that you can choose your friend, unlike your family. But what kind of friend you are, depends solely on your character. Friendships bring out the best in us, and a man without friends could never find out the best in himself. A true person would never choose to live without friends even if he had all the other goods of life.
We tend to consider people friends, even though they are not close and do not spend much time with them. Examples of these might be colleagues, fellow ...

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beings, we do not live in a vacuum. Our friends do have other friends besides us, and we become friends by connection. Gathering a circle of friends leads us to the entire world.
In order for someone to be a good friend they would have to like what is within themselves. Only a good person is capable of self-love, since the bad person would loathe what he would find in himself. It is the hallmark of a good person to have good friends because good tends to attract good. The good person would be attracted to other good people, even though it is self-serving. There is also a puzzle about whether one ought to love oneself or someone else most of all. Those who love everybody but ...

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