The document emphasizes the significance of friendship, highlighting it as a chosen, unselfish, and unchanging relationship that does not require mutual acceptance. It contrasts friendship with other familial relationships, noting that friends can be acquired throughout life at any age without the need for reciprocation or competition. Ultimately, it celebrates the joy of both having friends and being a friend, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from these connections.

1. Friend Relationship
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2. Everyone needs friends, and you
probably have always had at least one.

3. A friend is defined as a person you know well
and regard with affection, trust and respect

4. Life is a series of human relationships. It is very important
that we develop each to its fullest. No one need magnify
the importance of the parent-child relationship, the
husband- wife relationship, the brother-sister relationship,
etc. There is, however, a need to magnify the importance
of the friend relationship. Many would never class
it in importance with the aforementioned. I think that it
should be. Let us observe some advantages in the friend
relationship.

5. 1. It is one of the few relationships that we choose.

6. 1. It is one of the few relationships that we choose.

7. 2. It can be a completely unselfish relationship.

8. 2. It can be a completely unselfish relationship.
The child needs the parent. In usual cases, in later years the parent needs the child. The
husband needs the wife, and the wife needs the husband. In each of these relationships
there is, however holy, a righteous selfishness involved. When I chose to be your friend,
however, I chose to give and not to receive .. I chose to help and not to be helped. I
chose to love and not to be loved. I chose to care for you and not to be cared for by
you. In being your friend I ask nothing. I am willing to give everything, which means
that the object of such friendship may rest comfortably in an unselfish relationship.

9. 3. Friendship is one of the few relationships that never changes.

10. 3. Friendship is one of the few relationships that never changes.
The child grows up and leaves home. The parent grows old and passes away. Brothers and
sisters move away from home. At first the child needs the parent; later the parent needs the
child. Even in marriage the needs change with the passing of the years. In friendship it need
not be so. Many parents will admit that about the time they learn how to be parents, the
children are grown. The same is true with many relationships in life, but the friend relationship
is one of the few, if not the only one, where one can spend years becoming an expert and still
have time to use what he has learned, for the relationship may remain the same.

11. 4. The friend relationship is one that needs not the acceptance of
another.

12. 4. The friend relationship is one that needs not the acceptance of
another.
To become a husband means that another must accept the proposal. To become a wife
means that there must be a proposal by another. True friendship is not, however, based
upon this. I can be your friend, even if you are not my friend. In other words, friendship
need not be reciprocated. This means if I am your friend, I have chosen you from a wide
field of possibilities. I did not choose you because you accepted, for I became your friend
before you accepted. In some cases, I am your friend even if you never accept, but what
an honour it is to have a friend!

13. 5. One need never give up one friend for another.

14. 5. One need never give up one friend for another.
In some relationships of life there can be only one. In the friendship relationship the one
relationship need not be traded if another is acquired. This relationship is never lost to
another. You may be my friend and someone else's friend. When I become a friend to
another, I may still be your friend.

15. 6. The friend relationship is one that can be completely
spiritual.

16. 6. The friend relationship is one that can be completely
spiritual.
Most of life's relationships are based upon physical needs. To be sure, there are spiritual
needs also. In any relationship of life the spiritual should be uppermost. I can become
your friend, however, without there being one physical need for you to supply. Our
souls may be knit together, and our relationship need not be based upon the satisfying
of physical appetites.

17. 7. A friend may be chosen at any time of life.

18. 7. A friend may be chosen at any time of life.
Parents come at birth; children come to us in young adulthood; brothers and sisters come
to us during childhood. People at a certain age are unable to have children, but a friend
may be chosen at eight or eighty, nine or ninety, ten or one hundred, sixteen or sixty.

19. Friendship is a high and lofty relationship. Few ever know its depth.
Most never know a friend, and certainly, most never are a friend.
Hence, the great relationships of life are husband-wife, mother-daughter,
father-son, brother-sister, and . . a friend. Happy is the man who has a friend.
Happier is the man who is a friend. Happiest is the man who has a friend and
is a friend.
Oh how happy U r!

20. !!!!!Value Your Friends!!!!!
Dedicated to a Friend and a person who I admire
Abhishek Shah
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