1

Friendship

[Name]
[Institutional Affiliation]
[Course]
[Course Instructor]
[Due Date]

Friendship Today:
 2

Friendship is the strongest relationship we can invest in. However, given the current era, it is

clear that friendship is not so important to our society today. One of the reasons for this is the

loss of intimacy among people. They are not able to form close connections because they do not

have time to interact physically or because they only interact through social media. Social media

has caused so much competition among people that they barely engage physically and instead

they continue to make fake social media friends. Another reason is that people are not connected

through a proper and meaningful friendship. There are different types of friendships that people

are involved in now. One of them is the friendship of utility where people only use one another

for their good. Another type is the friendship of pleasure where people only engage with one

another because they attain some sort of pleasure from each other. An example of this would be

players on a sports team or members of a book club. These types of friendships show that none

of these people have the friendship of virtue which is the true friendship. It is created through a

shared activity where your happiness is their happiness, your sadness is their sadness, and your

problems are their problems.

People do not have intimacy with their friends because they lack the three things that makeup

‘Frientimacy’. These three things are positivity; where we stay positive about our relationships

and maintain a positive attitude, consistency; where we stay consistent and never stop putting in

the effort to our relationships, and finally vulnerability; where we let people in on things and

share many types of things with them such as what we are feeling, our dreams, etc. When we

lack any one of these characteristics, it causes distrust, frustration, and most importantly fear

among the people. If your relationship with any person is failing, it is because you are lacking

either one, two, or all these qualities that help build up a stronger and successful friendship or

relationship.
 3

References:

1. YouTube. (2013). Friendship in the Age of Facebook: Rory Varrato at

TEDxGrandviewAve. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVRbSuY3h9w.
2. YouTube. (2019). 9 Ways To Tell If Your Friends Are Trash | Kristen Newton |
TEDxIUPUI. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41rwhfADC8c.
3. YouTube. (2017). Frientimacy: The 3 Requirements of All Healthy Friendships | Shasta
Nelson | TEDxLaSierraUniversity. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJyWreER7A.