Most of us know friendship; most of us have experienced it. But what is it rea

It is in the nature of people to have friends. It is part of their being, part of their humanity. “Sometimes, people just need someone to talk to” (Girlfriend Nov. 2002). And this makes friendship all the more important and essential to life. “You are your own person” (Girlfriend July 2000). In every relationship you engage, it is better to act yourself and to come out as natural, as someone who is being his/her true self. And as Aristotle said, “Friendship can only be formed by persons of virtue.” It is made up of people who have their own virtue, different from those of others. That’s why acceptance of the being is also important.

Friendship should be selfless. Giving and sharing without expecting anything back as La Rochefoucauld found out that” friendship is the only human bond in which the tyrannical cycle of our self-love seems broken”; “we can love each other even more than love ourselves” (On Friendship par.6). A friendship isn’t going to last long if a person only loves himself. It should be shared to others not to yourself. That’s why according to Cicero, “the man least capable of friendship is the tyrant” since the tyrant has the need for power over the other, to show superiority and therefore is the man most likely to have an unsuccessful relationship with human beings. Friendship is the “bond between people least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure or material profit” as Francine du Plessix Gray elaborates (On Friendship par. 12). Why? Because friendship aims at equality. No one stands out, no one overshadows. Selfless!

Friendship is an involvement of at least two beings. It won’t exist if you’re alone without company. As Francis Bacon wrote in one of his essays, “those who have no friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.” (On Friendship par.2) Friendless people are empty and their hearts rust. As a famo

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