FRIENDSHIP.                                                                                   

                                                

Getting  a person to call a friend is quit easy but to find a true friend  might take you miles.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

The Benefits of Friendship

Benefits of Friendship

Spending time with friends is deeply gratifying for most people, and it carries some surprising side effects:  not only does it improve your mood and self-esteem, it also reduces stress and lowers your risk for terminal illness!

Maintaining friendships can be hard during those middle years, when work and family often take higher priority – but for a longer, happier, more fulfilling life, it’s certainly worth the effort.

Friendship is an excellent prescription for all kinds of physical and emotional pain. The Mayo Clinic reports that friendship can “increase your sense of belonging and purpose, boost your happiness, reduce stress, improve your self-worth, [and] help you cope with traumas, such as divorce, serious illness, job loss or the death of a loved one.¹”

It’s no surprise, then, that most people greatly value their friends, and often turn to them first in times of crisis, even before spouses or relatives.