Life is indeed a journey, and as we go along we made friends here and there. Some would remain our friends for a long time, others just briefly. Some become true friends who stood by our side not only in times of our joy and abundance, but in our times of sorrow and hardship.
For me, I have only a few friends whom I can call my true friends. They need not be near me all the time, nor be in touch with me everyday, but they have always been there when they know that I need a shoulder to lean on or someone to chat with. They also accept me just as I am. As Henry David Thoreau once said about friendship :
- "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
Nowadays, with the existence of social media means to communicate, we also come across people who request our friendship. Some of these new found friends become really good friends, others are merely interested to look inside our life's "fish bowl", and in some cases, to find topics for their daily gossips. With the existence of the various social media means to establish social networks, 'stranger' is a word of yesterday. And, as the famous poet, William Butler Yeats said,
- "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met."
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