You are a friend. You bitch behind my back about me and yet hesitate to tell me my faults at my face. You still call yourself a friend. Are you?

I believe a friend is one who tells you your faults at your face and helps you improve yourself not one who bitches behind your back.Its even worse when you deny it or act ignorant when i have heard it myself.tut tut. When are you going to grow up friends?What you can do both at my face and behind my back is make truthful compliments.Not praise or flatter but give credit which is rightly mine. A friend I believe is one with whom you feel comfortable and is comfortable with you. Not any acquaintance. Everyone I meet does not become a friend. A friend, isnt just someone you can crack your dumb jokes with but someone you can trust with your problems, your worries and your plans without worrying whether its going to be leaked to someone whom you dont trust.That, according to me is the basis of friendship.Trust. After trust, its the wavelength. As friends, two people, in my opinion,should be of somewhat similar wavelength. Else its difficult, not impossible, but difficult.The next thing, I'd say would be the interest in each other. Friendship, just like any other relationship is two way.A healthy friendship develops when the two of them are as interested in the other as the other is in them. Apart from these three, I dont see any other universally common requirements. The rest of it depends and differs according to the person.Like for me, I like people to be empathetic not sympathetic. Others like their friends to be spmpathetic to their situation.The rest of it doesnt matter. The rest develops over time.

Its difficult to find a true friend, harder still is to lose them.

Disagree? A true friend would know you and would be empathetic to your situation. Thats why its difficult to lose them. If you lose a "friend", trust me they never were your friend to lose a friend.Im talking from experience. I cant ever thank God for helping me find one good true friend with whom i could fight, laugh,cry, fume, go nuts and still be sure, iv got someone to lean back on.Thank You God.

Wishing You too find your true friend,
PrincessSnk