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FRIEND OR FOE? WHAT IS A FRIEND? DO YOU HAVE FRIENDS? Best FRIENDS? ARE YOU FRIENDLY? ARE YOURE FRIENDS TRUE TO YOU OR SHOULD YOU CALL THEM FOE? IN MY ENTER LIFE, I HAD ENCOUNTERED DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE, SOME OF THEM WERE KIND, SOME WERE NAUGHTY. I MET WEALTHY PERSONS AND NOT THOSE RICH PERSONS, TOO. I HAVE KNOWN TALL, DARK PEOPLE AND EVEN SHORT, FAT INDIVIDUAL. OTHERS WERE BEAUTIFUL IN MY EYES, WHILE OTHERS WERE IRRITATING ON MY SIGHT. MOST OF THEM BECOME MY FRIENDS, BUT I HAD NO IDEA THAT SOME OF THEM CANNOT BE CALLED AS FRIEND. WE ARE ALL AWARE THAT A FRIEND IS SOMEONE YOU CAN LEAN ON WHEN YOU HAVE PROBLEMS. A FRIEND IS A COMPANION WHO LIFTS YOU UP WHEN YOU WERE DOWN. SOMETIMES A FRIEND IS THE ONE THAT CAN BE YOUR BUDDY EVEN ON BAD DOINGS BUT MOST OF THE TIME A FRIEND IS THE PERSON THAT YOU CAN SHARE YOUR SECRETS TO. AS WE SAY, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND THAT IS WHY WE ALL NEED SOMEBODY TO BE WITH. IN THIS CASE, A FRIEND IS THE BEST EXAMPLE OF THIS COMPANY. LITERALLY, WE DESCRIBED A FRIEND AS term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more beings. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. TO EXPLAIN FURTHERLY, Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.

BELOW IS THE LIST OF TYPE OF FRIENDSHIPS WE PRACTICED:

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1. BEST FRIEND (CLOSE FRIEND): a person with whom someone shares extremely

strong interpersonal ties with as a friend.

2. Acquaintance: similar to a friend, but sharing of emotional ties aren't present. 3. Romantic friendship: the very close but non-sexual friendship shared between two

friends, often involving physical contact such as hugging, holding hands, and even cuddling.
4. Soulmate: the name given to someone who is considered the ultimate, true, and eternal

half of the other's soul, in which the two are and forever were meant to be together.
5. Pen pal: a person who shares a "postal" relationship with another and regularly write via

"snail mail". They may or may not have met each other in person and may share either love, friendship, or simply an acquaintance between each other.
6. Internet friendship: a widely debated and criticized form of friendship or romance which

takes place over the Internet. It is similar to a pen pal, in a sense a "technologically modern" form of pen pals and the people may or may not have met in person. It's often considered dangerous.
7. Comrade: means "ally", "friend", or "colleague" in a military or left-wing political

connotation. This is the feeling of affinity that draws people together in time of war or when people have a mutual enemy or even a common goal.
8. Casual relationship or "Friends with benefits": the sexual or near-sexual and emotional

relationship between two people who don't expect or demand to share a formal romantic relationship. In the U.S., this is considered "a fling".
9. Boston marriage: a term used in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries to denote two

women that lived together in the same household independent of male support. Relationships were not necessarily sexual. It was used to quell fears of lesbians after World War I.
10. Blood brother or blood sister: may refer to people related by birth, or a circle of friends

who swear loyalty by mingling the blood of each member together.

11. Open relationship: a relationship, usually between two people, that agree each partner is

free to have sexual intercourse with others outside the relationship. When this agreement is made between a married couple, it's called an open marriage.
12. Roommate: a person who shares a room or apartment (flat) with another person and do

not share a familial or romantic relationship.

13. Imaginary friend: a non-physical friend created by a child. It may be seen as bad behavior

or even taboo (some religious parents even consider their child to be possessed by an evil spirit), but is most commonly regarded as harmless, typical childhood behavior. The friend may or may not be human, and commonly serves a protective purpose. THESE imageries ABOUT FRIENDS WERE EXPERIENCED BY ALL OF US, IM SURE. WE WERE ALL CALM THAT WHEN WE HAD FRIENDS, THEY WERE ALL THOSE FRIENDS WE WERE DREAMING OF. BUT BEWARE; SOME OF THEM I CAN ASSURE YOU OF WERE NOT THAT TRUE AND LOYAL. BELOW IS THE LIST OF FACTS ABOUT THE FRIENDS YOU HAVE NOW:

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50% OF THEM KNOW YOU AND LIKE YOU BECAUSE OF THE FAVORS YOU DO FOR THEM 30% OF THEM HAVE SEEN YOU AT YOUR BEST 15% OF THEM SHARED YOUR PAIN 5% OF THEM KNOW THE REAL STORY OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE BUT ONLY 1% OF THEM ARE YOUR TRUE FRIENDS. . . THESE PERCENTAGE WERE BASED ON SOME EXPERIENCES WE HAD WITH OUR FRIENDS BUT SAD TO SAY WE WERE NOT THAT conscious OF THIS deeds DUE TO THE FULL TRUST WE WERE GIVING AND COMPLETE LOYALTY WE THINK WE WERE RECEIVING FROM THEM. IN THIS CASE, USING AND SOMETIMES ABUSING OF SOMEONE WERE HAPPENING. NOW, CAN YOU TELL IF HE OR SHE IS A FRIEND OR FOE?...

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