Friends

As the old saying goes, “No man is an island”; we all need companionship to complete us. Moreover, nowadays, we can even profess to have many friends. The social networking tools that are available to us made it easier for us to keep in touch and connect to our friends as well as to get to know many new friends around the world without even the need to meet them face to face in real life. We socialize with people whom we call friends all the time, but can we say that friends are the most valuable thing in our lives? In my humble opinion, I don’t think so. Friends are very important, yes, but there are many more important things or people in our lives, namely our family members, our health and our own personal development. Blood is thicker than water. This idiom explains the importance and significance of our family members; the bond that we share is so much stronger than the relationships we have with others. Friends may accompany us when everything is fine but there are very few friends who will stay back and go all out for us when the going gets tough. Our family, on the other hand, will never leave us in a lurch; no matter how difficult it is, they will try their level best to see us through the rough patch in life. In order words, we can always count on them to be there for us. Moreover, there are some friends who might have bad intentions and who might do things that can harm us to serve their own interest, but that is seldom heard of among family members. Family members will not normally turn against each other to their own advantage, but will normally be at the lookout for each other. Hence this complete trust, strong bond, and unconditional sacrifices, love that we have with our family members are uniquely precious and cannot be really found and experienced with our friends. On the other hand, our health should be more important than our friends. Friends may engage in activities that may bring negative effects to our health, for