1. A friend is someone you can be your true self with without fear of judgment. You feel free to share your thoughts and feelings openly.
2. With a friend, you don't have to pretend to be better or worse than you are. You can share your flaws and they will be accepted.
3. A friend provides unconditional loyalty, understanding, and love. They see you for who you truly are.
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What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. You soul can be naked
with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to
be better or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared
innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely
you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow you little vanities and envies and hates and vicious
sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the
white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect
him, tolerate him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He
understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all-and
underneath-he sees, knows and loves you. A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you
dare to be yourself!¡±
They say that friendship is the most valuable thing in the world. So
accept my grateful appreciation for being that valuable for me, my
friend.