Thursday, December 9, 2010
The value of friendship
Friendship is the most valuable and most credible treasure in life. The ultimate actual proof as being human is friendship.
——Ikeda Sensei

Why did we say so? It is because good friends are like your textbook which leads you towards ideals like a magnet. Friends can greatly influence us. We could either be encouraged by them and grow or we would even also be misguided and led astray by them. Therefore, our friends also play an important role in determining the success or failure in our life. Besides our own family members, they are the people who are closest and akin to us.

A person of righteousness and dignity is very committed to his beliefs and cherishes friendship. No matter how the era changes, friendship will never change. Friendships which cannot even face their problems and brave the storms are not considered as genuine friendship. Genuine friendships are those which become more firm and unfathomable when encountering challenges. Friendship isn’t a unilateral contribution and efforts but is determined on the sincerity of both parties involved. Say if one of them bears resentment due to some misunderstanding wounding the friendship, then this isn’t a true friendship. A true friendship is one which no matter what happens, one would never leave his/her friend and to wholeheartedly believe in them without any doubts and is willing to entrust everything to them.

Whether a person lived their life with value also constitutes to the kind friendship they make. If you do not have a confidant / bosom friend, then your life is in darkness and that sort of life is very miserable. Human beings are a community of animals. As a human being, we absolutely can never live nor grow up alone. Therefore, friendship is our life’s necessity, just like how we needed oxygen to survive. And because there is the existence of a valuable friendship, human beings can work alongside and collaborate with one another and bring forth ones great potential. If there is no friendship, our life will be like the world now – the destruction of Mother Nature and the instability of our ecology.

First of all, to have a true friend, we ourselves must become such person who is loyal to ourselves. We mustn’t for the purpose of pleasing others; force ourselves to conform to them. When we genuinely feel happy and further compliment our friend for the honour they gained, this will stir up good fortune to rapidly emerge in our hearts. Correspondingly, someone who envies and bears hatred upon seeing other people’s success will diminish their good fortune. Hence, let us all guide our friends towards the path of happiness and become the professor of happiness!

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