FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP
- Let’s talk about friendship. How important is friendship for you?
We all need friends. Even in the highly populated areas, loneliness is still a sad feature of the lives of many. Friends play an important role in our life and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how friendship is formed. Every day we mix with hundreds of people , get on well with some of them and make friends with only a few.
I appreciate friendship. It is a special thing. It makes happiness glow brighter and grief less painful, because we have friends to share it. Friendship is a bridge between loneliness and fellowship, frustration and confidence, despair and hope, setbacks and success. That’s why a real friens is a priceless gift.
- Can you rely on your best friend? Why (not)?
I’ve got a lot of friends but only one of them is my best friend. He (she) is a true and faithfu friend who has never betrayed or let me down. I can fully rely on him and trust him completely. One of the most attractive features of his (her) character is honesty. I can trust him (her) even more than myself. He (she) has a wonderful sense of humour and it’s always fun to be in his (her) company. We spend a lot of time together, have the same hobbies and interests.
- What questions can help you to understand if people are close friends or not?
- How long do you make friends?
- Do you spend a lot of time together?
- Do you have the same hobbies and interests?
- What can you advise a teenager who doesn’t want to go to school because of bullying?
It can be a real problem for a person who doesn’t want to communicate with others, who lives in his own world or for those who want to be the main person in the world. It is necessary to be closer to others and try to share or take into consideration other opinions, not only your own.
- Nowadays teenagers have got up to 300 friends in Contact. What do you think about it?
I can’t name a friend in Contact a real one. Of course, people in social net-works can have common views and judgements on things and events. But it can’t replace a real communication, when you can see your friend’s eyes and emotions, when you can share your sorrows and spend time together. I agree with the proverb “A person has only one true friend” and he/she is not a friend in Contact.