by Ojo Oluwakemi

Created on: October 11, 2010

There is preeminence in the loving compassion and empathy of a friend that can dissolve the knotted ties of anguish and pain, bringing hope and happiness to surge your life; a true and honest friend gives you peace at all times.

 Recognizing a true and honest friend is not easy, it takes a lot more than likeness to know who your true friend is. To cultivate a real and honest friendship, you need to devote time into it. There is value in what you take time and pain in building and keeping. When your life is going on well and you are happy that you are achieving quite a lot positively, a true friend shares in your happiness but at this point, an insincere friend may become jealous and envious, criticizing you and hurting you in the process.

 Like the saying, “you reap what you sow”, your friend is the harvest of your friendship implanting. If you plant a poor seed, your harvest will be poor. You have to be true and honest as a person before you can know if your friend is the same.

 A true friend is not moved in the least by wealth or riches or lack of it. They prove their value and importance more in time of difficulty than in opulence. True and Lasting friendship should be based on mutual respect for each other instead on what each other has.

 Honesty in friendship is an exact pathway to confidence, self-esteem, respect and prosperity while dishonesty starts from jealousy to failure. Dishonest friends neglect you when you need them most; they run from you and laugh at you when you fail, they destroy your self confidence and make you feel inferior.

 True and honest friends builds up the confidence in you, they give you hope and help you discover more about yourself, always trying to bring out the best in you, doing and saying what will help you move higher, encouraging you to achieve more successes in life.

 Dishonest and false friends have little to offer you, they always demand more from you and your friendship, and they give less to it. They are always selfish, spiteful, mean, nasty, uncaring and malicious. They desert you when they are most needed; they cause you pains and make your life miserable.

 You have to be very careful in identifying your true and honest friend, give your friendship time, develop the dignified and decent qualities that attracts same qualities in others, if you are honest, you will always have an honest friend. You have to be sympathetic, caring, loving, have interest in others and be helpful so that you can also have someone - a good and honest friend who will be that to you.

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