Good Friends

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Many of us have acquaintances, these are people we know but they are not our friends. Then we have friends, people we spend time with and we also have old friends, these are people we grew up with. Poet Leo Buscaglia says: “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” Let's talk about what kind of people make good friends. 

Good friends are loyal and accept you for who you are during good and bad times. Good friends are also honest, honest enough to tell you when you're not being a good friend yourself. They will tell you what you need to hear, even if you don't want to hear it. 

Along with good friends who are present, loyal, and honest, most people want friends who are trustworthy. Good friends celebrate your success and they don’t judge you. 

A good friend encourages you and helps you.

A good friend doesn’t have to be physically near. A good friend is someone you can depend on even when they live far away.

A good friend loves you and you can talk about personal things with her.

Some people say that it is not possible to have a very good friend from the opposite gender because romance can get in the way.

A scientific study from 2008 by James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis, found that happy friends make you happier. Because if your friend, of a friend, of a friend, is happy with her life, then you have a 6 percent greater likelihood of being happy yourself. 

People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected. This provides further justification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collective phenomenon.