Incredible India monthly contest of March #2| Value of friendship

Hello steemians all over the world! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I want to take out this time to appreciate every one here for taking time to read my entry in this contest by our able @meraindia and Incredible India Community.

According to you, what is the Value of friendship?

The value of friendship to an individual life can never be underestimated. We all need friendship wither we are good people or bad people, wither rich or poor, black or white, big or small, status or without status. I does not matter who we are, we cannot live in total isolation and feel accomplished.

We need friends around us both in good times and in difficult times in other to cheer us up, encourage, support and to celebrate our achievement with us. Without friendships life will be full of boredom and loneliness. Friendship has a vital role or value in our life that nothing can replace or substitute it.

In times of need we look up to our friends at times, this is natural because friends are gifts to our lives to fill in some vacuums that no one else can.

Do you believe we can share various things with friends that we can't share with our blood relation? Justify your answer.

No! Personally, I don't belong to that school of thought! Some people have a contrary view to this in the sense that, they believe one can share things with his friends things that he can't share with his blood relation. It shouldn't be so except for the purpose of protecting them, that is if he thinks such things or information might be endangering to them emotionally.

Otherwise, on no account should we prefer sharing sensitive things with friends that are non-blood relations which might betray us or completely live us one day and then deprived our very own blood, except if their are proven cases of distrust from our family members where the friend on the other hand has proven trustworthy consistently.

If those things can benefit them we should not deprive them. There's this old adage that I know long time ago which suggest that "blood is thicker than water" which is quite true. No matter what, family is a place to run to; friends may turn their backs on you when things get tougher but family will be there for you. You may love your friends very much, but the love for blood is incomparable. The things friends may enjoy that non-blood may not may be as a result of closeness that the friend enjoys than the blood relation.

Share about your first close friend and mention whether you are still in touch or not!

His name is Ernest Samuel but I call him Bimzy, Kwannantuk or Chokala. All the names above have there special behavioral connotations and source. We have been together from childhood, attended the same school, live together both at home and in higher institution, eat together, cook and eat together. We have many things in common, ranging on how we see things differently from others.

We are still in touch with one another, despite our distance we still communicate almost on daily basis. To crown it all, he is the one that introduce me to steemit and also mentored me. His user name here is @samuelernest.

Do you have any memorable incidents with your friend? Share.

Yes of course!
Some years back I joined him to dig sock-away thinking that was what the project he wanted to achieve. We both dug the sock-away from the beginning to completion without external support, only for him to abandon it and said his interest was not on the sock-away but on the sand from the pit. We later used the sand to construct bricks/blocks which he used to build a place to train local chicken.

To abridged my words here, after building to roofing level; the building collapsed. The two missions were abortive, the sock-away is still uncompleted while the building collapsed to foundation level during raining season, the chicken I don't have any knowledge of wether they still exist or not. These are supposed to be the very first project I knew him to have embarked on, "smiles". Thumps up to my friend @samuelernest.

I'm inviting @goodybest @bossj23 and @josepha to join this contest.