We count true friends with one hand, this is something that most of us are not surprised by, because we have already reached a certain stage of life and have accumulated many experiences.
We usually strive to have good relationships and really connect with someone. We seek accomplices, people to trust, friendships with which we can embrace the soul and explore every feeling that comes.
- However.
- We don’t always make it and most of our friendships end up being punctual and not as deep as we would like or would like.
- That is.
- We don’t have as many as we would like.
If we think of those special friends that we think we have and give them a title of honor in our own hearts, we will get a certain amount, now we have to split this amount in half and that will be the number of real friends. That’s what we got.
This confirms research conducted by Tel Aviv University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: only half of what we consider “soul friends” are real. This certainly shows something that experience often tells us.
A team of scientists from the two institutions mentioned has created a kind of “friendship machine” that, through an algorithm, can assess the reciprocity and reciprocity of our social relationships.
In other words, the algorithm is trying to find out if those we consider true friends also see us in the same way and therefore place us in a similar step to the one we gave them ourselves.
The results obtained with this friendship machine show that ONLY HALF OF THE FRIENDS THINK.
The original survey was conducted with 84 people and then supplemented with a survey of students in Israel, the United States and Europe. So, as Erez Shmueli said as head of investigation:
“It was found that 95% of respondents considered their friendships to be reciprocal. If you think someone’s your friend, expect that person to feel the same way about you. But this is not true: only 50% of respondents fall into the category of two-way friendship, that is, the one generated by both parties ?.
True friendships are rare. It’s not something that surprises us, is it?However, it is a worrying thing. It is not really possible to generalize and say that the same thing happens with everyone, but the thing is that it happens with most of our contacts.
Perhaps there are some circumstances in life that unscreoth us or separate us from those people that we now (or yesterday) consider friends. Therefore, it is not a question of quantity, but of quality. With the passage of time and the vital circumstances around us, we have learned to love our fellow life partners more, but their numbers are drastically reduced.
This fact in itself is neither bad nor strange, but simply a law of existence. Over time, feelings become more intense towards those who give us more confidence and, as a result, bring us better “vibrations”.
It is often a matter of instinct and proximity, because if we think we are okay, we will take trust and good feelings as a flag, this will bring us closer to the people we love and create clear and sincere friendships, which we call “real. “
Illustrations by Kristina Webb.