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Ravi Joshi's avatar

Friends are who you choose, unlike relatives who you are born with. Common interests, shared ideas & activities is what decides your choice. As you grow & as your interests & activities diverge, friends change & you develop new friends. Friends for life is part of nostalgia, of course you may pick up the same conversation with them after 20 or 30 years.

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Damandeep's avatar

Friendship word is a very tricky word and hence I feel it gets misused and misunderstood a lot. Absence of judgement is my yardstick of friendship in most cases. However you also have childhood bond of friendship that carry until old age and adult life and those do come with their own nuances and challenges. I have forever struggled to reciprocate so many times to claims of friendship from some people while they may think I am a friend but due to my own decided yardstick I may not call that relationship a friendship. So I would say it’s to each their own. The why of the relationship decides it’s nature and the name you give to it. On a lighter note - They say to have a successful marriage marry your friend 😄

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Tarun Kunzru's avatar

Like every thing positive in life friendship should have no strings attached......

Sharing, caring, laughing, crying, playing, travelling, arguing, celebrating, mourning, agreeing to disagree... The list is endless. What doesn't make the list in my book is having expectations which are selfish and commercial in nature. It's not a transaction....

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Subrata Mitra's avatar

HaHa! Riding on a Tiger in Niger or anywhere is dangerous

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Lakshmi Raman's avatar

In these days of ‘remote’ family connections, friendships are what most sustain us emotionally and even spiritually. To me, the 3 yardsticks of friendship are responsibility, commitment and dependability. Why, these could be applied to most of our meaningful relationships.

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