Stages of Friendship

As said correctly "A Friend in need, is a friend indeed" a person who helps you when you are in need is your true friend. Have you ever come across a situation which is worse than bankruptcy, termination from job and its? We all been in these situations, but trust me there will be millions of advice, but a very few hands to back up matters the most and that is a true friend. Friendship is defined as a mutual affection with a person, which does not include sexual or family relations. What would life be like without friends? Hallow right, the Friends are people we love to spend time with. They bring fun in celebrations and support unconditionally. 

These Stages of Friendship start with when we meet a "stranger". We start our conversation randomly and if things go well, we would advance to the next stage: "casual acquaintances". Here we might start to share some feelings and thoughts, but only positive ones. This stage is all about getting to know one another better. If things continue to go well, you would advance to the next stage: "friends". During this stage, we begin to trust one another. We feel secure in the others company. It takes much longer to reach the next stage of friendship which is "Deep friendship". By this point, both of you have experienced each other closely for so long that you trust each other deeply.  The final stage "self-intimate" consists of you and only you! And it's healthy to keep some thoughts and feeling totally and completely to yourself.

Let me tell a story, once there was a deer, a crow, a mouse and a turtle. They all were good friends. One day the deer went out to graze. He was caught in a hunter-net. In the event in the deer did not return to his friends. The mouse said to the crow, will you fly over the trees and find the deer? Then fly back to us and tell us where he is. The crow flew away. He came back after half an hour. He said, our friend the deer is in the hunter's net. What shall we do? Said the mouse and the turtle. I will take a mouse on my back, said the crow. He will bite through the net and set the deer free. Yes, said the mouse. I will do that. And I will walk to the deer, said the turtle. The crow took the mouse on his back and flew with him to the deer. The mouse bit through the net. The deer were free. The turtle got friends were all very happy together.

Moral of the story is that unity is essential to achieve victory. There are various Stages of Friendship and throughout the most important is communication and to understand and to be understood. It is important to communicate clearly as sincere communication leads to the right understandings.

HUMANS ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS- THEN & NOW

Humans have always been considered to be a group with skills that are different from other animals, although, like many animals like sheep, humans tend to follow a certain thing. Humans have been known to survive in groups. Earlier, they migrated from place to place, but in a pack. And now it hasn’t changed much, we still rely on our companions for a number of things. 

We have different social groups, a group of friends, a group of colleagues and your family is another group. Humans tend to survive better in communities, it has a positive effect on their mental state. Although there are some exceptions who survive on their own without any social groups, they still interact with some people to get things done making them a part of that group. Man cannot survive alone, in order to satisfy the needs he needs to have a few people to communicate with. Our relations with each other begin right from our birth, or even before that when we are just a fetus in our mother’s womb, these relationships last till the day we take our last breath. According to Aristotle, "a man who is away from everyone is either a beast or a god, as no one is completely self-sufficient we all depend on one another". No human can survive without being dependent. 

Humans look at each other for behavioral norms, they behave like the people whom they observe, communicate or hang out with. Human pshychology into in simpler word behaviorally of the human mind and how it be whom. It is proven that humans are a pack animal, they follow each other. They pick up habits from one another, they behave like each other. Humans have created languages to make communication easier in other words, for being able to socialize with each other. Earlier humans didn’t have a specific language, yet they found ways to communicate with each other, through different sounds, signs or actions. These have been modified and converted into languages by humans for proper communication. As known by many, the sheep is an animal that does what it sees the other sheep doing, humans are not quite different. We follow everything that we see in our surroundings.  

Humans are social animals; being social doesn’t necessarily mean going out and spending time with friends or your colleagues, it can simply refer to when you are talking to a shopkeeper telling him what you need even that is socializing. No one can survive without socializing a little. 

Keeping everything in mind, there are some people who we call ‘lone wolf’ who don’t have a friend circle, who don’t like asking people for something or anything but that just the person being anti-social even that person is dependent on other people for a number of reasons. Taking Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory in consideration humans that are social are considered to be fit and they survive in this society whereas the ones who can not socialize will have to learn to socialize, it is the way of the world.

 Socialism was and will always be an important factor to be considered for the survival of humans. Humans are the most social beings on this planet. It is in their nature to be social.