I have read an article on friendship, and I have taken down the following: “In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal man turn to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the world to which it would give utterance? A friend.” I think that we share the same feeling with the author, and know that it is a treasure in our life. However, do you know what friendship is?

Friendship is the flower blooming, opening the hearts of you and me with its fragrance. In the depths of our soul, we bless each other. Friendship always warms our hearts. Friendship is a sentimental bridge, with which we can communicate, work and enjoy life together. When the bridge connects our hearts, we become close friends. Friends will occupy most of our thinking and emotions in life. The essence of friendship is equality. Friendship is not a gift that can never be achieved by unequal power. It has no relationship with money and power.

Friendship requires equal efforts from both sides, which leads to mutual understanding and trust. I think that all of us can gain it by our efforts, so long as we want to put our heart into it. This is a world full of people, and we cannot live alone. Further, without friendship, we cannot have a full and healthy life. Therefore, friendship means a lot to us. In my opinion, it is necessary for us to know the basic requirements to gain it. As Socrates said, “Don’t try to win a friend by presenting gifts. You should instead contribute your sincere love and learn how to win others ‘heart through appropriate ways.”

The fundamental friendship proves mutual love, understanding, trust, common interests. We share feelings and thoughts with our friends. The pretend friendship finds no sharing of feelings to maintain it. Friendship is not to be manipulated and calculated by us. If we feel that a friend is made in the term of “utilization”, friendship will come to an end. The termination will not be graceful, for friendship cannot be traded. Men and women can be friends; an adult and a child can be friends. Even husbands and wives also can be “friends.” Friendship needs careful cultivation, pruning and care. However, friends can become your exclusive private property, with which you can share your happiness and sorrows with the others. Friendship is a kind of interpersonal relationship, which may be from the conflicts with the others. “Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.” We share with each other about our hobbies, feelings, etc. The interpersonal relationship bear great importance in our life.

James Boswell, a British writer, said, “We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Friendship needs a long time for us to find out our real friends. We will choose our friends carefully, and we will not change our friends easily. Friendship is a treasure in our life, which makes our life colorful and more enjoyable. The treasure cannot be purchased with money, or power. It is out of our daily communication with the others, and it is out of our sharing hobbies and love. Friendship allows no conditions. We cannot bargain to get in, for it is priceless. Friendship is in your success, sincere cheers in the difficulties you encountered.

It is well known that the friendship between the people can foster a good relationship, including mutual understanding, appreciation, trust, tolerance, etc. Friendship must be heard. That is, we need to communicate with each other to find it. Friendship can help depressed friends, and it can overcome difficulties in front of us. Since I have the possession of friendship, I am not lonely, and I become strong. Whenever I fall, I will stand up and I believe that the successful is near.

No friendship, there will be no way for us to live a happy life. Without friendship, we will be lonely to death. Only when we work and live with some friends around, we will find that our life is no meaningless any more. When we meet some difficulties in our work or life, a friend offers his or her help. We feel that friendship is there, and it can reduce our pressure under this circumstance. The role of friendship is so amazing! Friendship is not a patent owned by some one. As long as you have a sincere heart, you will gain the friendship.

Friendship grows with our age, and it is expanding with we meet more and more people around the world. The more we get together, the more friends we will have, and the happier we will be. Friendship is out of communication, social or not. When we grow older and older, we will know more and more about it, and we can understand the notion of friendship much more deeply. Friendship is a musical instrument, which should be played with our hearts. Only with trust, mutual understand, and unconditional love can we play a wonderful melody.