Friends Always?

So often we received emails from friends that today (as in everyday) is an international friendship day.

I always wonder why we have friends?

The most common type of friendships are friends of Utility.

Look around you. We want to have friends who can help us in our career (business acquaintance), our lifes, our cores and our work. Once they are not longer useful, we hardly keep in contact until we see them in the newspapers (either giving a talk like me, I found a few long lost friends last week attending my lecture just to see if it is really me) or in the obituary. haha.

This is the reason why tit-for-tac, an eye for an eye, you not nice to me and I will not be nice too, will result in divorce and breakup.

The other type of friendship is one of convenience, just like office colleagues, being in the same boat at the same time and once off the boat, no more contact.

The third one is unconditional friendship, which doesn't have an hidden agenda and accept whatever we are. The element of respect and loving kindness is the key to this type of friendship. Everyone claims to want a friend like that, but if you look carefully at all your friend now, how many are unconditional friend and how many are mainly behaving like the friend of utility.

This applies to relationship too.

And I recently heard that a religious organisation is providing some of its funds to education, provided that the beneficiaries must come for their Sunday service. This must be considered conditional charity?

Life is full of hidden agendas.

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May you be well, happy, peaceful.

With Gratitude,
ROBIN