The mystery of friendship

The narrowed topic is the mystery of friendship. The topic deviates from comparing a new friendship to a new novel because continual comparison makes the subject broad. The friendships that people have are very diverse as it is and requires more attention to explain some bits of friendship. Friendship is a phenomenon that needs extensive stud to explain.

The primary audience for this essay is any individual researching the development of friendship. The material in this essay shines a light on the factors that enable people to get along and in the long term chose friends. The initial point people are always strangers which is simple to explain. The formation of friendship attracts a wide audience. The primary audience is therefore psychologists, sociologists and literature scholars whose works thrive on the social existence of people in a society. People with the intention of researching the dynamics of friendship are more likely to benefit from this essay. It will help them know what behaviors to look at when valuing friendship and have a wider perspective of how friendships are formed. Attempting to explain how and why people are friends is a complicated venture because some friends have nothing in common except their friendship. This writing is for the people who are likely to research and study friendships.

My point is that friendships change the direction of development every other day. Some friendships break while other times they grow stronger. The way different people connect to each other in friendship is determined by their characters. However, it is not uncommon to find people with very different characters being friends even after falling out over and over again. Friendship can be determined by the socialization of the individuals. The environment where the individual has grown will determine how they handle people and ultimately their friendships. The psychological growth of an individual determines how they handle people and their kind of friendships. A friendship can also be defined by the culture within which an individual is raised. If a culture encourages treating friends as family then the individual adopts the same approach. Friendship formation can be discussed from a social, cultural and psychological perspective in a bid to explain the existence and how it comes about and at the same time find out how the dynamics may change in different circumstances.

Friendship from a social perspective is a way in which people connect based on their social settings and unwritten rules of their society.

Friendship is a psychological need that leads people to find ways of getting away from their loneliness and find an avenue of easing their mental burdens by having company.

Culture guides the way friendships among people are formed and maintained.

Friendship is an important part of our lives. It makes life interesting for people. Friendship is not always positive because there are other factors like negative peer influence which is also part of friendship. It is important to take all factors surrounding friendship in explain the different forms of friendship. The factors give a wide perspective of what is important to look out for during the formation of friendship and how exciting or not it is likely to be for a particular type of person. There are many ways in which friendship can be studied. The role of friendship in the society cannot be understated. The friendships sometimes grow into business partnerships which grow the economy. Friendships can also go wrong and turn into gang wars which also very common in many parts of the world. Friendship formation can be discussed from a social, cultural and psychological perspective in a bid to explain the existence and how it comes about and at the same time find out how the dynamics may change in different circumstances.

Friendship from a social perspective is a way in which people connect based on their social settings and unwritten rules of their society.

Friendships provide comfort.

Friendships demand loyalty and honesty.

Friendships fill in the gap that a family cannot. 

Friends are supposed to understand what the family cannot and act as confidants in times of necessity. (Dill)

Friendship is a psychological need that leads people to find ways of getting away from their loneliness and find an avenue of easing their mental burdens by having company.

Friendships help people find a solace from their loneliness.

Psychologically friendship helps people maintain their sanity by having an avenue of expressing their feelings.

Mental health spills over to the physical health of an individual.

Friendship is an important factor in the daily lives of people.

Culture guides the way friendships among people are formed and maintained.

Culture determines the type of friendships people can have.

The culture of an individual also dictates what the friends can accommodate.

The culture also dictates what the friends will be taking part in during the course of their friendship. (Sagandykova)

Studying friendship is an eye opening undertaking that makes it easier to understand the society better. When scholars study the various factors that determine how friendships are formed, managed and maintained or broken in the long run, they discover what things are likely to end a friendship. They also find out what is more likely to make people with very differing characters get along as friends. The psychology of friendship has given a perspective from inside the mind of an individual while sociologically, the individuals being friends are connected by their surroundings. The culture crowns the life of friendship because it has all the necessary dynamics of friendships starting from how people are socialized to take on friendships to the end result of how people actually handle friendships. The existence of friendship is solely because the human form is a social being and friendship is one way of people being social. People cannot survive on their own without friends which makes friendship a very important factor in the lives of people. Friendship is a strong pillar of the society.

References

Dill, K. (n.d.). A Friend: sociologist’s [Perspective. Retrieved from Where Friendships Begin: www.socialjane.com/articles/3-fetaured-article/94-what-is-a-friend-a-sociologists-perspective

Sagandykova, A. (n.d.). Importance of Friendships in Different Cultures. Retrieved from Top Universities: www.topuniversities.com/blog/importance-friendship-different-cultures