There are many songs and sayings, stories and anecdotes about friends. And yet, the nature of friendship, like love, as well as many other feelings, remains beyond human understanding. There are many definitions of them, but all highlight only a part, losing the rest. Is it really possible to know a real friend only in trouble, or is there a way to check this earlier?
Instructions
Step 1
Decide on your understanding of friendship. After all, each person has his own characteristics of the interpretation of this feeling. Someone sees friendship in daily meetings with cheerful discussions, for someone a friend is one with whom you can not see for months, but when you meet, forget about separation. Who is your friend? A person with whom you can share everything? Who will always come to the rescue? Or, on the contrary, for which you are ready to drop everything and rush to the end of the world? What is he? Kind or prefers snide irony, more often sad or cheerful?
Step 2
Take the time to come up with as many questions as possible and write them down carefully. Think over the answer to each. Trust not only and not so much the analysis of sensations, but the intuition and prompts of the heart - should they not know who your real friend is. Finish the work and look again: is there something that you forgot, something important, without which you cannot imagine a true friend?
Step 3
Think back to your friends. Do they have the qualities described? All or just one? You will be surprised to find that not everyone responds not just to the ideal portrait of a real friend, but does not even match his likeness. But do not rush to get upset, because this is not the end.
Step 4
Listen to what your soul tells you: only one feeling allows you to recognize a true friend - reckless trust. With this list, you made yourself artificially disappointed in your friends, but certainly not in all. The feeling for real friends is stronger than any piece of paper. And if among those whom you are checking, there is at least one whose attitude towards which you have not changed in any way, this is a real friend. Your friendship is beyond convention and trying to create rules, it exists and nothing can destroy it.
Step 5
And don't forget: a true friend is someone you never doubt. So before you start testing, think about it, is it really needed?
