Friendship is one of the most important things in a person's life.

 Friendship is one of the most important things in a person's life.  It is about sharing joys and sorrows, successes and failures, expectations and disappointments.  Someone once said - "if you have a friend, you have everything", and it couldn't be more right. In a friendship we meet ourselves, we become more supportive and more responsible. Through the development of the sense of empathy, a friendship makes us people  better for the simple fact of making us more aware of each other. The friend is the one who spontaneously comes to be at your side, who understands you and tells you everything that other people would not have the courage to say always thinking of your best.  It is to accept the other as he is and respect him in his choices. It is to add, never to subtract.

 In the whirlwind of chores in which we live, I invite you to analyze the people present in your daily life.  Have you ever stopped to think about the role they play in your life? You must have at your side someone who shares the good times as well as the bad with you.  If you don't, or if you think you're a reserved and lonely person, I'm sure you must have developed that friendship with yourself.  As a human being, we need dialogue, to listen, to be heard, to welcome and to be welcomed.  And in this exchange, without judgment, is where we find real opportunities for growth and evolution.

A friendship is about reciprocity, it is about affection.  Perhaps friendship is the most important relationship, simply because it is present in all relationships.  In dating, it is essential to have friendship, in a relationship of parents and children, do not have even to mention. Finally, in all relationships we have to have friendship as a basis and work on its maintenance so that it continues as a pillar of healthy support.

Despite the complicity of friendship, this strong bond of union, not having expectations about what you will receive from your friend, or knowing what to expect from people can be a path to a lighter and more lasting relationships.  Having the feeling of being able to count on someone for everything, anytime, gives you security and makes you feel loved.  However, when they ask me for advice related to frustration in friendships, I ask people not to charge so much for their friend's presence, because friendship has nothing to do with omnipresence, but with gestures and moments of partnership.  Friendship for real, it flows.  There are no charges, pressure or blackmail.  No one needs to remind the other to be present, to act.

Therefore, understanding each friendship as unique is extremely healthy.  Each friend of ours is unique.  For each moment ours is a certain friend who fits right into that situation ... think a little about yours: the one who is funny, the scholar, the dreamer, there is the brave, the concerned, the disillusioned, the one who is the friend-  brother, the consumerist, the barber, the chatterbox and also that quiet one, who speaks little, but when he speaks ...

Seeing this way makes you appreciate what each person has the best, and consequently, be valued in what you have the best to offer in each type of relationship.  One of the biggest challenges for people is to be vulnerable.  Expose the most intimate feelings and weaknesses.  When we open our hearts to a friend to enter, we have the conviction that it is for life.  But we also have to understand and respect when that bond is broken.

 I have friends I met on trips, at school, in the neighborhood, at the club, at parties, introduced by another friend.  Some still walk with me throughout my journey, others have been distancing themselves, as a natural action of life.

 Everything needs to happen spontaneously, naturally, through pure and simple connection.  It happens a lot to know the true face of the person only with the passage of time, causing us to lose the admiration, the respect and the affection for him.  That is why it is important to respect the individualities and the timing of each one.  It is very rich when we have the possibility of having a friend for each situation or even one that fits many.  As we change, our friendships also change over time.  A healthy relationship is made up of values, exchange, trust, understanding, solidarity and empathy.  All the opposite of this can represent a toxic and unsustainable relationship.

 Friendships often go through turbulence due to misunderstandings, incomplete sentences, misplaced words and divergence of opinions.  Which is perfectly normal.  When these situations appear in a way that undermines the relationship, sincere dialogue will always be the best way to find a solution.  Our role is to make coexistences exchanges that have a learning curve.  Each one does the best he can, as he can, as he knows and, from there, everything makes sense.

To my friends who are no longer friends, my thanks for the walk we took together.  To those who remain by my side, my honor in having the opportunity to exchange.  Those who are yet to come will have my welcome.

 And to everyone, my deep gratitude!