Cycle of Friendship
Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family. As we go through various developmental milestones from childhood to adulthood, we meet and move with various people we call friends . We make some in school, in the neighborhood, in church/mosque, at our workplace or even on social media. A lot of things attract friends to each other, ranging from similar beliefs and values , interests and activities, viewpoints, way of life, life experiences etc. However, it is possible for a friendship relationship to enter a stationary or death phase when the individuals involved start to find a lot of difference in things they considered common to them before, or that attracted them to each other initially. When such happens, it takes sincerity on each one's part to decide whether it's time for that relationship to come to an end or find a new set of object of attraction. The stages of friendship includes: Stranger, Acquaintance, Casual Friend, Close Friend, an