:: REFLECTIONS::

	ANYTIME YOU NEED A FRIEND The true meaning of friendship


	FRIENDSHIP A friend is someone to behold To laugh and chat with when it is cold Someone to comfort you when you are blue To talk to about the old and the new One has many acquaintances in life But when there is sorrow, or there is strife A friend is someone who will understand To lend an ear or a helping hand It doesn’t matter where you are Whether you are near or whether you are far Around the world or across the street A friend is someone you will one day meet So when life’s troubles get you down Try to smile and do not frown Turn on the computer or pick up the phone With true friends you are never alone A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship is a gift A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace And make the world we live in a better and happier place. by Haifa Kourouche

Important lessons I learnt from being your friendand you my friend 4eva

In making friends I have learned so much and followed some major principles for everyone’s benefit:

Take responsibility for your own life
Practise tolerance
Emphasise the positive
To get respect you have to give it
We must be contributors rather than takers
If we want friends, we have to ADD to people’s lives. After all, isn’t that where the real joy is?
In helping out, in surprising people, in doing that little extra… sometimes it is simply “BEING THERE”
We must have fun and be fun
Others also want us to be real.
To be a friend we do not need to become more complicated or sophisticated.
Rather we peel off a few layers and reveal something of ourselves
There can be no last word on making friends.
Daily, people will confound, confuse, frustrate and delight us. And we can never expect totally to figure them out.
I have learnt from my friendship that there are no formulae for friendship, but there are some rough paths we can follow.
We have both learnt and shared so much and I would like to think that we both have benefited from each other’s thoughts and gathered more than our share of joy, laughter and lasting friendship along the way and continue to do the same now and forever.