Friendship Goals

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

Friendship is not a luxury, it’s something we all need. We all want friends: who understand us, who believe in us, who root for us when everyone else might turn their back.

School is the classic greenhouse for making friends. You are with them every day, you share the same experiences and you have shared memories.

But in the same way School is that greenhouse, it can also have the downside of too much intensity. Like a greenhouse that doesn’t get enough ventilation, school can get intense. And if you fall out with a friend, you can really notice that intensity.

So when you do fall out, we can ask ourselves - what makes for a good friend?

Trust

Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

Honesty is the foundation of trust, you can’t have one without the other. You need to be able to be honest with your friends. To know where you stand with them. To speak clearly and honestly, which doesn’t mean to be so honest that you can hurt. But to share your thougths and know that those thoughts with stay only with that person.

Constancy

The quality of being faithful and dependable.

A friend that you can’t count on is not really a friend. Friends need to be dependable. We also need to be dependable. It’s easy to opt out sometimes: it’s cold, tired, dark, sick. Whatever the reason. And sometimes those reasons are valid. But in general, we need to lean in and support our friends as much as possible. And if they are friends, they will do the same for us.

There are other qualities for friendships but in short and sweet, you can narrow them down to that: Trust and Constant.