S O F I S T I K said:
I'm from Eastern Europe, hit me.
the following is taken from an article i wrote with the help of someone else.
Friendship is something common amongst people, however there are different conceptions of it. Some common conceptions include the following: friends will always stick by your side, you can always rely on a friend, you can speak freely to your friend and tell them your problems, friends like you for who you are, etc. When people have personal problems such as disputes with their family members or if
they require advice they usually turn to their friends.
As many people have already stated Friendship seems to be based on benefit.Friends come together on the basis of mutual interest.
Due to the fact that friendship is based on benefit. it is easy for people to 'break out' with each other, have rows and even become enemies. This happens when their interests conflict and can be over petty things such as not going for a night out with them or larger things such as betrayal. In many cases people even talk negatively about some of their friends in front of others.
Friends even become status symbols, so people long to 'hang out' with a particular crowd to look cool. Often crowds have leaders with egos, so staying on the right side of certain people is important if you want to be accepted. For some this means 'sucking up' to them, for others it means undertaking actions to make them think you’re 'cool'.
Friendship is based on using each other. The proof of this can be seen in the fact that when friends became unusable they drift apart. Typically, if someone’s friend was to suddenly change and stop clubbing, partying and taking intersest in the same activities at every opportunity they would start treating them differently and normally 'break out' with them. Especially if this person begins to account them when they are wrong and advise them upon their actions repeatedly.
Friendship in societies is normally false as the society is founded on greed, individualism and following lusts, there never seems to be no sincerity.
Friendship is conditional to a massive degree. you only have unconditional love for a brother. Ofcourse people that you would consider 'brothers' would have to have a mutual pattern of thought.
By the way, im a muslims!