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Importance Of Friends Essay

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Friends play an important part in one’s life. A friend is someone who always helps you and gives a helping hand when we need it. A friend is someone who you know very well and can fully trust with your eyes closed. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” A friend is one with whom I may think aloud”. One may have seen people who show off that they have many contacts and many friends. One will honestly doubt it. One doesn’t show off but they can say that they have a lot of friends. Best friends are those who you can count on the finger of your hand. They may be less but are faithful and honest. Friends help one by giving them emotional support, listening to your friend and giving them suggestions, not leaving them when they need you, talk to them when they want to, being with them at all times etc. The word "friendship" is important in the relationship between Amir and Hassan. Amir can never quit calling Amir is never able to call Hassan his friend Because of his lowly Hazara heritage, Hassan is from a …show more content…

Normally if you are opposites, you won’t stay in a healthy relationship; you’ll start fighting, disagreeing on morals and standards and just contrasting on everything! A true friend though, should have respect for your beliefs, so then you shouldn’t be bickering. Now if you completely disagree then you shouldn’t remain friends; you can stay cordial, but not friends. Example if a Christian goes to a public school then he shouldn’t make strong ties with non believers if his faith is new or if he struggles a lot, because those friends could cause him to stay away from his faith. If however he does have a strong faith and testimony which he believes he does, he would be able to have non believing friends and keep his faith by standing up for it and calmly proving that friend wrong with

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