Kinds of friendship :

Different people make friends for different motives 

1.Friendship for pleasure : you are a friend as long as the relationship gives some fun, entertainment and company.

2. Friendship of convenience : you are a friend only to gain favours to get some benefit or get a job done. These friendships last until the usefulness of the other person lasts.

3. True friendship : this is based on mutual trust, respect and concern for the others welfare and growth. It is marked by generosity, sacrifice, desire to give without expecting any return. Mutual growth is the objective of friendship. 

1.How to keep your friendship alive? 

👉 Express it - many friends have died because both the persons took the other for granted talk call up send greetings and gifts on special occasions. 

👉 Open up - friendship thrives on open communication. Lack or absence of communication leads to misunderstanding. In the presence of friend you can be yourself, no mask, no defences because your friend is someone who knows all about you and yet loves you.

👉 Learn to listen - your friend has many things to tell you. Give a listening ear. Do not be pre occupied and get distracted with other things or persons while you are listening to your friend. Do not blow your own Trumpet, while you are with your friend.

👉 Respect your friends individualty - respect and accept the other as a separate person and not as a extension of yourself. Remember friendship is not marriage. Friendship stops growing, the moment you treat your friend like your private property. Friendship is not business. It rests on freedom and  trust. 

2. Characteristics of an unhealthy friendship : 

❌ Seeks the other for self satisfaction.

❌ Unable to stay away long from the other. 

❌ Seeks all possible opportunities to be with the other. 

❌Does not allow the friend to mix interact or spend time with others than self.

❌ Feel angry or jealous when others talk to my friend. 

❌ Excludes all from my circle of friendship. 

❌ Use my friend for myself. 

❌ Loses one's identity idependent thinking takes upon one self all that the friend desires things etc,…

❌ Sacrifices all values principles for the sake of pleasing once friend.

A healthy friendship : 

✅ Introduce your friend/friends to your family.

✅ Meet in open places in avoid alonely places. 

✅ Desire mutual growth and welfare of the other. 

✅ So respect for each other's body under the person.

✅ Avoid being secretive and possessive. 

✅ Saree or experience of the friendship with another girl and another boy. 

✅ How the courage to break up when you find it dangerous or unhealthy. 

✅ Keep your communication open. 

✅ Do not go steady  instinctively and do not make your final choice.

✅ Speak to many and do not stick to only one.