第十九章 最深的友誼
Friendship
佚名 / Anonymous
Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a few—for example, the average among students is about 6 per person. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interest change greatly. As we get to know people, we consider things like age, race, economic conditions, social positions and intelligence. Although these reasons are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a great difference in age and background.
Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, to have opinions and interests in common—they often talk about “being on the same wavelength”. It generally takes time to reach this point. And the more intimate people become, the more they depend on one another. People want to do friends favors and hate to break a promise. Equally, friends have to learn to put up with bad habits and to accept differences of opinion.