ᔕᑕᗷ Friends and Co

 

Hello my dear Steemians,

 

I am having a long trip today in train and that is a reason why I have so much time for thinking and consideration, 6 hours need to be spend somehow effectively and what we can do is to share what we think. The best place for that I thought to choose a new community of chats and how we can call it our chatter box. Just to through some topic and see what other people will think about that.

Also I did not want to share any pictures because I did not want people to be distracted by the beauty of images.

 

Friends: childhood

 

The topic I choose is "Friends", unfortunately this word is nowadays used so easily and toward many people even though they are not your friend at all. Therefore, let's start from our childhood to find when we become what we are.

As children, you remember we were choosing friends by for examples common likes, games and often, when our parents were asking us to invite this or that child from the nursery or school we disagree saying but he/she is not my friend and we just in the same group of class. We were very bond to our friends and we supported them in any situation. We were helping with doing something and I remember helping to wash the clothes of a baby of my school friend when baby vomited all the food that was given, so we quickly cleaned and all evidence of that were gone. We had a lot of fun and to tell the truth some of those friends are still there and if we need each other we know that they will be there without any hesitation.

maybe that is why people say real friends we do find in our childhood

 

Friends: adolescence

 

Slowly we grown up, were very excited about adult life and all the opportunity that we could have, but that is the first time when we learn what means when you are open and naive.

Have you ever experience the moment when you enter the room where many of your colleagues are and once you are there, they stop chatting? That is very uncomfortable situation. In the past when I was young and "green" I pretend that I di not notice that and just started to speak about anything else and the group just followed up.

I remember how my first boss who was female and we had a female colleagues, once after few months of my work called me to her and said that I need to be more communicable with others if I want to achieve more. People like chatty and happy people and no matter if you like them or not. That was my first acquaintance with society: no matter if you like people or not try to be like others and you will be fine

This is also a time when I decided for me that no matter how nice and supportive people be and I will be to them, the only person you can trust was yourself and your close family and relatives, because only them who can tell you truth and give a honest advise, even if it is bitter.

when I hear that som people have many friends and even thousands of followers they do not have that one reliable friend who we might need when we are in need.

There is a popular old song with such lyrics:

If of sudden the friend has turned
Not a friend, nor a foe, just - so,
If at once, you don’t understand,
Is he good, or is he bad,

Drag the guy to the peaks-take a risk!
Do not leave him alone on slope,
Let him be tied to rope on cliffs -
There you’ll know, who he is.

 

Friends or so

 

Since I started our journey on Steemit, we also use so easily these words like "friends" although we do not really know people around.

I hate when comments have such referral to author like "bro"for "brother" or "sis" for "sister" and this is used for people who we never met or spoken to. Especially short version of such comment like:

great post bro

There I do not know if the person read post or not there is nothing reflection and if the person thinks after calling someone brother that they are now friends?

It is a shame that this good and strong word has lost its meaning. We call many friends, but are we behaving ourselves as friend:

• do we respect our friends
• are you ready to be there for your friends

Social media wiped off our faces and real names, let's at least to keep our honest character and respect to each other.

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