Not only would the friendship be mentioned, but love – the more complicated version of the former is also the topic that I would like to write in this article.
So what is exactly friend? What we need from a friend?
I used to be jealous of those people who have at least someone to ask to a birthday party or travel to somewhere. Sometimes I’ve wondered when I would have such a truly kind of friends...
As someone said, we are like the lock waiting for a fit key. At the time we stumble upon and strike up a conversation with someone  and discover they are very like us and are attracted by our character traits, we know we will have new friends.
We could not call someone a friend if they cannot be trustworthy enough, cannot be the first one we really want to take part in our important days.  Whatelse we expect a friend will be?
EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY?
A true friend is theoritically the one who has the ability to reach them same level of understanding with us. They are happy when seeing we beatifically smile and are sad as they see our tears trickle down . But they could neither be a psychologist, a neuroscientist nor experience these things we did to know how bad or good impacts of an event on us actually were. They simply are not in the similar situation with us.
Helpless laughter could be escaped on our stupidity as long as that was not considered as an intentional insult. At least they are people who is reliable enough to listen to what we are not embarrassed to say, to relieve our pain as we sink into depression. And of course we would be also pleased to hear them out.
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In case we get involved in a situation that we and our friends have to together deal with an issue, the collaboration requires that we have similar ideas to work well with them. Arguments are inevitable between two people. The first we could do is to sit down and have a straight in-person discussion to find the ways to address problems and defuse the tension. CONCESSION is needed to be made to stop everything getting worse.
HAVING SAME TASTE?
Our bosom pals know what we are keen on after a long time of talking and vice versa. But they came to realisation that we could have our own hobbies that might be entirely different from theirs.
We know that people could hardly have same ideas, the same thoughts or go on the same path. Even though we might be judgemental, we can at least give respect for our friends’ preferences – that is also the way we support our buddies.
They don’t criticise us as you would not have plan to get married or you’re just a weirdo or a freak. But they could probably feel nervous as seeing we get involved in criminal wrongdoings.
BEING HUMOUROUS?
A friend don’t need to have a great sense of humour to make us laugh. We cannot expect a comedy actor to come to tell you jokes every day. Sometimes we derive pleasure and happiness just from simple things, for example, they drink coffee/ boba milk tea or slurp a bowl of “pho” with us, or they are an ally in a sport game, or kindly discuss or have a chatter with each other on everything from the mind.
HELPFULNESS AND SUPPORTIVENESS?
It is widely perceived that a person can be a friend if he/she is with us through the bad times. There is no denying that they sometimes could not stand by you or do us good favours for some reasons, and because they are not the one we could take advantage of.  We could have to solve your problems alone. However, we all know our dearest friends are always ready to come or won’t hesitate to give you advices if have any chance. They could help us recognise how imperfect we are  or discover our talents, our real passionation and they avoid us from being led astray. They help us escape all the suffering, surely not in a bad way – because they will be the first ones who stop us from doing that.
Having a friend is the fortune itself. And having someone we love could be the only best thing we could get in all our life and never let it go. But like anything in the world, the relationship could not last forever. Even the light may fade. But at least, that is what we could save in your mind till the end as things make us feel nostalgia for good times we got with our companions.