what is friendship?

what is friendship?

Posted on ខែ​មេសា 2, 2011 | មតិ ១

In today`s society,everything is in function of money…but you should not mind of this ..this is life,human life.But what is friendship?.As I already told you that Friendship is not like Love.It really need reciprocity of relationship,the relationship of affection.No reciprocity of relationship,friendship will not become friendship.Well, to understand about Friendship,Aristotle told us that there are three kinds of friendship:
1.Friendship based on pleasure
2.Friendship based on utility

3.Friendship based on goodness.
Well, the first is the kind of friendship between,especially,young people or children…Young people meet to pursue their pleasure….The pleasure is most motivated thing in their relationship.So,when there is no more pleasure,friendship often comes to an end.A proverb said that when the sky is beautiful,the swallows appear,and when the sky is bad,they disappear.
And for the second,it`s a relationship between elderly people,or middle people who seek utility for their own advantages.The friendship with foreigners was also included in this kind of friendship.But utility is not a permanent thing.When the utility disappears ,the friendship often comes to an end.
for the third, which is recommended for all people,it`s a sincere relationship of affection between good people as long as they are good .And you know goodness is the enduring quality!This kind of friendship is most stable because it was not conditioned by anything else than the goodness.it does not depend on impermanent things such as pleasure,utility,money, etc.It`s a sincere relationship of affection.This kind of friendship does not have to cost of anything.However,a question arouses in our mind: why people become friends? Well ,life itself is boring, this world is not free…we are chained …in the cave of Plato….we are living in darkness and see only the shadows of Truth.Often Job,or Career takes most place in our life,so there are recompenses for the distractions with family and friends…Family and friends are our companions with whom we spend free times and also money alternatively.