Value friendships

Friends are not forever, but for as long as you live.

And that is long enough, so choose wisely

But first take the trouble to decide who is a good friend.

1. A good friend is someone who tells you what you need to hear, not only what you want to hear.

2. A good friend is someone who stabs you in the chest (who corrects you), not in the back.

3. A good friend is someone who reminds you about doing something for your life after death, for the day when you will stand before Allah.

4. A good friend is someone from whom you learn new things.

5. A good friend is someone whose silence you find interesting and relaxing and whose conversation is enlightening.

6. A good friend is someone who is interested in you enough to devote time and thought to you.

7. A good friend is someone who you can look up to and hold as a role model.

A good friend is someone who is always there with you even when he is not. A good friend is someone who you can meet after a decade and pick up a string of conversation as if you’d met him the previous evening. A good friend is someone who challenges you to be and do your best, one who will not accept your excuses for poor quality or laziness. A good friend is someone who is happier when you succeed, than when he succeeds himself.

I had such a friend and his name was Berty (Cuthbert Suares, Jr.)

Now hold on a minute before you start judging your friends, which you must do of course, but ask yourself first, ‘Am I a ‘good friend’ to my friends?’

Value friendships

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