Wow, I never knew so much about Cricket until now. But I used to play it in my phone, a Cricket game app, during grade school. This post is informative. Kudos!

I totally agree with your post, I’ve had friends that hated me underneath everything. When I was in high school this on girl used to talk and do things to people. Mean things and I thought because I was her “friend” that it excluded me, it did not. We ended up fighting the two years after we graduated. Only because I wouldn’t tell her something. We were grown I was obligated to tell her ever single detail of my life, I never was and she couldn’t understand it. It felt like a break up.

I agree. The friends we have are a reflection of us. It means they speak , act and think more or less like you.
Friends should be with you through thick and thin.
Friends know what to tell or not ,his /her friends.

I’m going to repeat myself. I know I must said this before but I can’t remember where.

We can be a friend to anybody and everybody. That’s our choice. That’s our decision.

But we need to accept that not everyone will be our friend in return.

Some people value friendship. Some people don’t.

But that does not control me and I value being a friend.

Just because I choose to be a friend does not mean that I will allow you to trample on me, take advantage of my kindness, etc., etc. But I’m still your friend. That’s on me. It’s my decision to be your friend.

It’s your decision to choose to be my friend or to be my enemy or to ignore my existence. I got no control over you. Understand where I’m coming from?

I am not choosing carefully. I’m choosing to be a friend to everybody! But that doesn’t mean I am going to let everybody use, misuse and abuse me. That’s not what true friendship is about.

yeah raheema you are right we all face such situations in our life, but still we need our friends besides us all the time, they are like mirrors to us with whom we can share our joys and sorrows and we can discuss our problems with them as well. I have many friends in my life but now most of them are busy with there lives

I think if we even have a one good friend and several enemies we can still cope with them, cause Good friends are like diamonds and we need to take care of them and try to be friends for as long as possible. Many of my friends are now days settled in Australia, New Zealand , i am in still touch with them thorough various social media websites

yeah we all do face such situations and you rightly said God is our mist loved best friend, you can accept me as friend if you want to. Are you from Philippines??

There is no such term as GOOD FRIEND and BAD FRIEND. A friend is a friend and it all depends on how you gauge it and how the other reciprocate it.
No doubt friend is important for each and everyone. There are many we come across in our life. Many will go away in the beginning itself, some continue till our college life, and some will continue until the fag end of our life. Are all these good friends? There is nothing can be said and define their friendship.
We get and think so many of our close friends. But, we are not sure how they are thinking about us. He may be having some others whom he thinks as his close friends.
It is always the closeness that defines and determines the value and the depth of friendship.
Close friendship requires sharing, sharing of all situations, problems, happiness, and sorrow. They respect each other for their opinions, they seek and follow the other opinions, they argue, they quarrel, and again the next morning they meet over a coffee table with a sweet smile wishing each other. The distance and time will not be the barriers to define the friendship between two close friends.

Who we associate with is important. I am so blessed to have some close friends who stuck by me through thick and thin and are always there for me and vice versa. Thankfully I have never had a really bad friend, but I do take my time to get to know people.

Statistics clearly point out the fact that people who have friends are more happy and have an overall increased well-being than those who don’t have friends.

In the journey of life, we all happen to travel with other people. We are social beings and need to be in the presence of others. Many times, however, those who we choose to spend our life with can have an immensely negative impact on us. Therefore we should be very careful when it comes to choosing friends, so that we surround ourselves with those who help us find happiness, instead of those who contribute to our suffering.

There are two kinds of people: those who burden us and those who uplift us.

Those who burden us are those who we don’t truly resonate with, who don’t have a similar mindset to ours, who we can’t truly communicate heart to heart with, who don’t understand us and who we don’t feel connected with. Those people are making our lives more complicated, and, whether they realize it or not are putting obstacles on our way to happiness instead of helping us reach quicker to it.

Those who uplift us are the people we can consider as true friends. They are those who can understand us and connect with us on a deep level. They are those who care for us, love us, and wish us the best in life, doing their best to help us grow into the best version of ourselves. Those are the people with whom life can be turned into an amazing journey, filled with joy, love, and freedom.

Obviously, if you desire to live happily, you should surround yourself with those who lift your soul up and not with those who bring it down.

I agree. A good friendship can get you a long way in life. They are the people that help us achieve our goals in life.
The bad friends just bring us down and don’t want to see us succeed. These are the people we don’t need in our lives.

Very well said. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

You may have heard -“judge me by the people I avoid”
The people we choose to spend our time with tells much about us so choosing our friends wisely is very important. We tend to adopt many habits and good or bad behaviour by the people we spend our quality time so if we have good mannerd and genuine people in our circles most probably we will be able to add good qualities in our personality, we will learn new things. Finding good friends is really a blessings and every one is not blessed.
Do you have good friends?

Found this quote today so I’m re-sharing it here. Think it’s a good fit for this discussion.

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” ― Booker T. Washington

freinds really good but family are more vital and has more priority, friends also have families and they have to give family priority, other wise friends are good part of our life in all the ways for sure, thanks for the post

Yeah you are right, and as you also mentioned over body is made of water and its a major constituent of water and if we didn’t take enough water then we will feel sorry later and only water can help and no other fluids like that

Us Too here in the Philippines have a lot of superstitious beliefs. But because my father is a lawyer, they brought us up not believing any of them at all. So far, nothing bad happened to all of us by not following them.

Actually, our grandparents would tell us about the superstitious beliefs but my father would tell us they are of no scientific basis, so we should not believe them.

Actually from all those that you have enumerated the we , Filipinos have the same superstitious beliefs ;

1. Never watch their face in a broken mirror. ( The one I was using in putting make-up everyday before reporting to work for the last 2 years was broken. Nothng bad happened to me during those years, but lately I replaced it with a new one already)

2. When a black cat crosses the road while you are driving, it means bad luck. ( Hubby would still drive after the cat has crossed. He doesn’t believe it anyway, so nothing bad happens to him)

You are right my friend that superstition mentioned here might also be the beliefs of people around the world.These are also beliefs in Philippines and people tend to feel afraid seeing their face in a broken mirror and fear of having cup fallen and broken on the floor. It means something bad to mourn if a glass drops to the floor. Of course,m that drops because of carelessness and the person lacks focus.

My father, while we were growing up was a strict one. But in his strictness, we know that he truly loves us and is just being protective of us.

He would make us lie down facing the bench when he would whip us because we didn’t follow him or we are being stubborn or quarrel with anyone of us siblings.

We never go direct to him to ask for something. We do it through our mother who would tell him and he would let mother buy it for us. He was strict yet very loving to all of us and a good provider.

But all of us grew up to be God fearing, good citizens and kind women.

Maybe, had father not been strict to us, we would not have been given a good education. Yes, two of us have eloped in their 18’s but he made sure that despite that they also finished their studies.

All I can say is his discipline and strictness honed us to be good women.

But he was a good provider.

I’m currently on a strict diet right now but there are days that I cant help it but to cheat on my diet. Thanks for reminding me how discipline is so important. I’d rather suffer the pain of discipline than suffer in the pain of regretting that I failed my diet.

Yeah exactly some times or on most times , me also face issues like that, but at the end of the day what will triumph is lone discipline