When you feel bad and share your feelings with a friend, you feel more protected, understood, and start seeing things from a different perspective.
We are social animals and to be happy we must have relationships with others, it is difficult to be totally happy without having a relationship with anyone.
“Friendship is a soul that inhabits two bodies, a heart that inhabits two souls. “
-Aristotle-
A friend is someone who doesn’t belong to your family, but whom you perceive as a brother, a father, a mother, is someone who can sometimes be closer to you than to your own family.
At Brigham Young University in the United States, one study concluded after studying three hundred thousand people over seven years that the lack of personal relationships amounted to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day or drinking six glasses of alcoholic beverages.
Therefore, the lack of friends is worse for health than a sedentary lifestyle or alcoholism.
Some pretend to be friends, are considered friends of ours, but judge us, treat us with indifference, or leave us out.
These people are not friends, they are people that we need to take out of our lives, so that other people who bring us joy and satisfaction can enter.
You can easily detect a fake friend with these simple keys
A good friendship is forged over time, with years of relationships throughout our lives. A friend who shows up overnight isn’t really a friend.
It takes time for good and bad things to happen to realize the evolution of friendship.
Those who are considered friends, but disappear when things go wrong and come back when they are well, are not friends.
A true friend is always there to celebrate your joys, embrace you and support you in difficult times.
A friend criticizes you for hurting you, but for helping you and puts himself in your place. The person who deliberately criticizes you from behind and hurts you is not your friend.
If you suspect the intentions of an alleged friend, trust your intuition and ask yourself: how do I feel next to that person?
If you think someone doesn’t contribute to anything, don’t radically break the relationship, but let time see how things evolve.
“Don’t spend time with someone who doesn’t want to spend it with you. “
? Gabriel García Márquez
A true, sincere and selfless friendship makes us feel complete and encourages us to move forward. A friendship can last years or a lifetime and bring us many benefits.
Often loneliness is a good companion that allows us to know and accept, but it is necessary to overcome isolation and communicate with our friends.
True friends make us feel accompanied, excited, involved, just as we will with them when they feel alone.
William Bukoski has published research in the journal Development and Psychopathology showing that childhood depression is directly related to a lack of friends.
Children have also been shown to do more physical activity when playing with friends.
For ten years, several Australian scientists followed 1,500 people and concluded that people with a large circle of friends reduced the risk of death by 22%.
Therefore, having good friends and living with them increases life expectancy.
A study from Duke University (USA) Thousands of singles with heart disease found that after five years, only fifty percent of patients who did not have a trusted friend survived.
The surviving patients had at least one true friendship
Our concept of ourselves and our self-esteem are fueled by the love and support of our friends.
Our friends know our faults and strengths and are on our side in the good and the bad.