What is a true friend?

joanlawson

Hi

Some thoughts on friendship:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

I have made some true friends on this site, so thank you all.

Joan

colinone

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Good friends are hard to find Joan and they are very few and far between. I know many people but can only count my true friends on one hand.
Colin

joanlawson

Hi Colin

I still can't believe that you are back :!:

Words of wisdom from you as usual :!:

Joan

Wonkylegs

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Some thoughts on friendship:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

I have made some true friends on this site, so thank you all.

Joan

wow Joan, you know how to put things into words so well ..... can I echo the above ..... friends are very very valuable ..... and true friends are really really the ones who walk in as others walk out (even family leave!)

thanks guys and gals

annie_mial

'A good friend is difficult to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget'

Can't remember who said it, but I entirely agree!

Annie

frogmorton

Hi Guys
You lot are so profound!
I echo Colin though - my 'real' friends I can count on one hand
Love
Toni x

mellman01

Right I’m going to drag this thread down by this but it’s a true story so don’t deride me.
John Wayne before he died from the big C was asked by one of his sons what was one of the most important things he had learned through his life, his reply was that if you end your days with 5 real true friends then you have done well as most will let you down at some point normally when you need them the most.
It was on a documentary I watched years ago on the duke but it has always stuck in my mind as it’s about right, well for me anyway.

ninakang

For me, real friends are the ones who are there for you when things aren't going well. Like many of you, I know lots of people but only have a few true friends - some of them from this site, so thank you.

Also, I count a true friend as someone who, even after an argument, you know you will still be friends. Even when you've fallen out, you know that if you needed them, they would still be there.

Nx

joanlawson

mellman01 wrote:

Right I’m going to drag this thread down by this but it’s a true story so don’t deride me.
John Wayne before he died from the big C was asked by one of his sons what was one of the most important things he had learned through his life, his reply was that if you end your days with 5 real true friends then you have done well as most will let you down at some point normally when you need them the most.
It was on a documentary I watched years ago on the duke but it has always stuck in my mind as it’s about right, well for me anyway.

Hi Mell

I'm your friend, and I wouldn't let you down :!:

Joan

page35

im going with what colin said too
i have 3 true friends and feel very lucky to have them, one of them i have been friends with for 26 years and we are both only 33 so thats along time i believe we will always be friends.
ive got lots of mates and people i chat to but a true friend is special

dachshund

Hi Joan.
we met our friend when we was 18 she was 10
thats fifty years we've been friends.
she come's to see us on our birthday and christmas and any time we phone with a problem.
joan xx

jordan7j

"make new friends, but keep the old, for one is silver the other gold"

joanlawson

Thanks everyone for your thoughts on friendship.

One thing is certain, and that is that we all need friends, some times more than others.

I do try to be a true friend, and not a fairweather friend.

Joan

trisher

A true friend

A true friend is there for you all the time, no matter what, they stand by your side, during the good times and the bad times,
when other friends have had to' leave.'

They ask nothing in return. Their repayment, is purely, just to see you through and out the other side of illness, or any other worries you may have or any other troubles.

Their religion maybe different from yours but it never stands in the way of your friendship.

Nothing can break this friendship, you may be parted for a while but you still feel and know they are there for you.

Trisher xxx

joanlawson

trisher wrote:

A true friend

A true friend is there for you all the time, no matter what, they stand by your side, during the good times and the bad times,
when other friends have had to' leave.'

They ask nothing in return. Their repayment, is purely, just to see you through and out the other side of illness, or any other worries you may have or any other troubles.

Their religion maybe different from yours but it never stands in the way of your friendship.

Nothing can break this friendship, you may be parted for a while but you still feel and know they are there for you.

Trisher xxx

That is really lovely, Trisher, and thank you for being such a good friend to me.

Joan

joanlawson

The Greeks knew what's what, didn't they :?:

sharmaine

Hi Joan
You are so right. My very best friend died some years ago and with a house move into a different county I'm hopeful that one day I'll find friendship as strong as that once again.

Sharmaine

joanlawson wrote:

Hi

Some thoughts on friendship:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

I have made some true friends on this site, so thank you all.

Joan

annebr

What a lovely thread. I have found out the hard way that the person I considered my closest friend isn't. Over the last year and my illness she hasn't been ther or interested in fact she told me to 'get over it' she didn''t even visit me any of the times I have been in hospital.

But I have found some lovely friends on this forum!!!

Anne

mike77

Hi All, I dont have any close friends as the one I grew up with always called to go out and play football with turned on me when I had epilepsy after that I never had close friends again . but the people on here are now ARE FRIENDS THAT i TRUST and know that I get good advice when I am feeling down thank you
Mike R & Hazel & Mike JR

joanlawson

mike77 wrote:

Hi All, I dont have any close friends as the one I grew up with always called to go out and play football with turned on me when I had epilepsy after that I never had close friends again . but the people on here are now ARE FRIENDS THAT i TRUST and know that I get good advice when I am feeling down thank you
Mike R & Hazel & Mike JR

Hi Mike

I find that very sad about your experiences when you were young. I hope that attitudes of children towards people with epilepsy are more understanding and sympathetic nowadays.

It must have been very difficult for you to trust anyone after that kind of treatment.

Happily, you found Hazel to trust, and I'm pleased that you also have so many friends on here too.

Joan

katekelly

"Friends are the family you'd pick for yourself".

Don't know who said it but I can honestly say its true in my life.

trisher

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sue1963

Aww what a lovely thread guys

I see a true friend as someone who never judges you, knows when your not ok even if you say you are, is there for you through the bad times and through the good times too. A true friend wont desert you in times of need she will sit there and think through how your gonna get through and as has been said before will still be your friend even if you have a big fall out!!

I have very few "close" friends as Ive become very untrusting over the years but the ones I have I treasure.


Sue xxx

lucymum

I have friends that hav been there throughthick and thin, marraige break ups, births marriges and deaths!!!!! I know that no matter how long it has been since we spoke, they will be tere and are there to support the family now with the advent of my little ones illness!!

friends are the best, you can moan, cry, shout, scream and still they will pat your back, make you a drink and support you on your way!!

trisher

Hi luyc's mum

You will find many friends on here. We will never walk out on you. We will also support you when you are down or in good times too.

love Trish xxxx