Friendship
FRIENDSHIP Mario D’Couto “In prosperity our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.” - John Churton Collins Aristotle once said, “The human person is a social animal” and if you’ve watched the movie “Cast Away” , you will know what I am referring to. As humans, we’re all relational beings. We need each other one way or another. To live alone would make us mad or it could lead us to do crazy things. Friendship is what makes life meaningful and yet it is important to cultivate the right kind of friendship for if we were to develop the wrong ones, it would only lead us to our downfall. This article is about how to discern the right kind of friendship and how to sustain it. The first thing that I would like to highlight is friendship, in the truest sense of the word, is willing the good of the other. Perhaps, the best example I can think of is the friendship between David and Jonathan in the Bible. Fi...