Why would one have to work on a friendship? Does finding lifetime friends come easily? What about keeping friendships intact? Is it much like keeping your marriage through thick and thin?
I can count on one hand the number of lifetime friends I've had. Each of them came along at milestones of my life and they are still in contact with me except for one who passed away a few years ago from a stroke. When I did some research on quotes, synonyms, antonyms, and definitions, I was interested in the word impact in relationship to friendships. I was surprised to find that impact in friendships is a "forceful coming together of 2 things such as people forming a friendship together."
The impact is compared to a glass shattering on a tile floor, a bashing together, clobbering, pummeling, taking a licking, clashing, crashing into each other, colliding into one another, and hitting with force. What do these terms have in common? They are forceful and intense. When you think of your best friends,are the relationships you have and love best also forceful, having power to influence and bring about results one on the other? Has a best friend jarred, jolted or shocked you? Was the impact with power and punch? Was it a meeting and agreement of feelings and senses?
From the Encarta (MSN) website the dictionary says friendship is a relationship between friends having mutual feelings of trust and affection with mutual assistance, approval, and support. When you think of your closest friends do you both value honesty, integrity, forgiveness, harmony and peace and one another's uniqueness?
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