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Friendship

 What is friendship?

Isn't being understood the most sublime feeling in the world? 

Maybe some of us have been involved in this question and have thought about it deeply. 

What is friendship?

How many friends should we have? What are our duties towards a friend and what should we expect from them?

People start a friendship with different intentions and goals. 

One of the people's goals of friendship is personal gain and benefit!

I am talking about normal people, not those who think friendship in the office is rational for them or even others.

This type of friendship, whose purpose is to make profit, is often short-lived and continues until the parties can make a profit, and after the profit of one of the parties is stopped, the friendship relationship also goes down in history.

But what is a virtuous friendship and worthy of an honorable ?! 

It's a moral person..

It is a friendship without care for personal gain.

In this type of friendship, a person enjoys the existence of another person, not anything other than the existence of that person and their material and immaterial belongings.

Sometimes, because of the borders, because of the tradition, or the culture, all our basic and true equations are questioned.

Like this sentence that I always criticize.

There is a proverb in the Persian language that says: "Pigeon with pigeon ..

Eagle with eagle.."

What does that mean?

It means, keep quiet if someone has a better financial status than you, and you are poorer, there will be no friendship at all!

That means, for example, if someone owns a factory and I am unemployed, because of financial differences or class differences, over having too much or too little, friendships should not be formed.

The second kind of friendship, which is one of the true and virtuous friendships, often occurs with a person who has similar interests and tastes to a person and is, in a sense, one of their own kind. Of course, this statement does not deny the possibility that a person 

can be friends with a person who is not similar to them, they can be friends with someone who doesn't speak the same language and is not their countryman.

The number of friends should not be overdone.

A person who has an excessive number of friends and the number of their real friends is not more than one or two people is much more virtuous than a person who claims to be friends with a nation. 

Like politicians..

The person who thinks they have many friends is actually no one's friend! Because the birth of friendship requires knowing the person whom we consider a friend.

A person who has a lot of friends will not have time to know all of them properly and their attention will be divided and in the end they will not know any of them properly.

In contrast to a person who is an excess of virtue, but in contrast to an extreme person, they are considered virtuous, because this person knows at least one or two of their friends in the true sense of the word and is familiar with them.

I said this to say: friendship requires getting to know the person we want to be friends with.

Maybe for those who have reached my age, the issue is clearer than others.

According to the ancient noble Greek Aristotle: "no one will be as helpful to friends as friends in hardships, and friends should expect support and help from each other in hardship and adversity, but friends should never expect too much from each other".

And true friendship is one of the most important ways to achieve a virtuous and honorable life.

And the last word 

Where will I be a traveler after my isolation is over?


Take care of your friends.

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