How To Build Better Friendships

When you open your eyes and look around you, you will see many people who are perpetually surrounded by tons of friends. However, that does not mean that they are close to all of them. Anyone can have lots of friends, but what kind of friends you have, is more important in the long run. Real friendship means friends whom you can count on and who will always stand by you no matter what. Here we will discuss how you can build better friendships with the people around you.

The most important quality required in friendship is communication. You must be able to speak your heart out to your friend and vice-versa. The more time you spend talking to each other and sharing things about yourselves, the better you will be able to understand each other. The more you are able to understand each other, the closer you will find yourselves coming to each other. The next most important quality is trustworthiness. When your friend trusts you and tells you to keep a secret, you must. If you tell someone about it, it will simply spoil your relationship. Even if they forgive you later, your friend will never be able to trust you again. And you cannot expect your friendship to grow in the absence of trust. Similarly even you can share personal things with your close friends, it will bring them closer to you. They will also feel that you treat them as someone really close to you. The next most important quality is altruism. Most of the time, we are so busy thinking about ourselves that we fail to think about our friends. Be as easy-going as possible. Don't get angry for small things. If you want your friends to enjoy your company, you will have to be fun. Throw your ego and pride aside. Good sense of humor, positive thinking, confidence, always having a smile of your face and always motivating your friends to achieve their dreams; who wouldn't want to have a friend with such great qualities?

Always remember if you want your friends to love you, you have to learn to love yourself. Unless you love and respect yourself, you cannot expect somebody else to love and respect you the way you are. Be the kind of friend, you would want to have around you. You will never go wrong. After all a friend in need is a friend indeed - goes the popular proverb.


The author writes on a variety of topics online in his free time. Sometimes he writes friendship quizzes which one can try out. At times he also writes birthday messages for friends and relationship advice for net surfers.