How to be a good friend?

While scrolling on my social media page I saw this picture:

Sadly, this is the reality today. A person may have lots of friends but when in need there is only one good friend who is there to help.

Nowadays technology enables people to gain friends easily. In just one click we can be friends with someone on social media platforms. We can even gain not just hundreds, but even thousand of friends! And when we no longer want to be friends with them we can simply click a button to remove or unfriend them.

Many people surely loves love to gain a lot of friends online, they enjoy it a lot when friends appreciates their posts, like and comment on their pictures and some even shares them. Others also spends many hours talking to friends through social media messaging apps. People may have thousands of friends on the internet but how about having real close friends? Many would agree that they only have few real good friends compared to their online friends. (Well, it's the same for me too)

Many will also agree that there is more to friendship aside from liking or reacting, commenting and long hours of chatting through social media messaging apps. And most of us doesn't want to have gain friendship that ends in just one click, we want long lasting friendship and we want to gain real good friends!

Consider the following friendship tips that may help in gaining good friends:

• To have long lasting friendship with people and to gain a good friend, we must be a good friend first.

• We must care for them first, show them that we are really interested and willing to give them our time and effort without expecting anything in return. When we do this they will definitely notice and that will help us be drawn to each other and eventually become good friends.

Communication is vital! The flame of friendship becomes brighter if we have constant communication. And always remember that listening is one way to an effective communication. Be willing to listen and respect their opinion even though you may not agree with it.

• Keep in mind that being a good friend doesn't necessarily mean that we should tolerate their wrong doings. Though it's not easy at times and it may feel a bit awkward we must help them and speak up if they did something wrong.

A good friend is not always the same age as you. Others think that when someone is older they may not have the same interest and may not understand each other hence, they can't be good friends with them. But that is not true. We can enjoy long lasting friendship even though there is a big age gap. Personally, I have friends who are way older than me but I have them as good friends. They can give advices which our peers can't give.

Building friendship may require time and effort but it's all worth it. It's worth having good friends and enjoy long lasting friendship with them.

How about you? What do think is the best way to gain good friends? And can we br a good friend to someone?

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