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10 Qualities To Look For In A Friend

By Super

Best qualities of a good friend are you can share a nonsense joke or you have a shoulder to weep on, they inform some good news or even hang out with you all night. For all this you just need a friend. A friend is the person with whom you can be what you are. In this world, where you need to ‘maintain’ relationships, your true personality comes out in front of your friends. From childhood, people start to make friends as it is impossible to live alone. At early age, your elders give you tips for good friendship. As your age grows, your maturity level increases and you try to search people who are compatible with you.

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Friendship is a unique kind of love. There lies no contract, no conditions, and no demands. You just need to find certain qualities of a good friend in a person. How friendship is the most valuable relationship? In love relation and divorce, you get words like ‘break ups’ and ‘divorce’. Do you know any such words to end a friendship? No, because friendship can’t be ended. It just finds its way to flow.

There are certain qualities of a good friend you need to know before making friends. So, this article will surely give you some useful tips for good friendship

1. Trust

1. Trust

This is one of the best qualities of a good friend. Friends are there to share all our secrets and personal thoughts. So it is very necessary for your friend to be trustworthy, otherwise the relation will not build up.

2. Genuine

2. Genuine

Make sure that your friend doesn't talk behind you and he/she will never backbite you. You may have issues between you, but genuine friendship keeps everything between you two of you.

3. Don’t Be Judgmental

3. Don’t Be Judgmental

This is an important tips for good friendship. Take your friend as he/she is. They may have some faults, but instead of being judgmental, tell the correct way to them.

4. Forgiving

4. Forgiving

While you see qualities of a good friend, look for this. Friendship is an informal relation. So mistakes can be done. You need to have the quality to forgive your friend and a little word ‘sorry' can mend many things.

5. Acceptance

5. Acceptance

Qualities of a good friend include this too. Accept your friend with all negatives and positives. He/she may be weird, little boring, over enthusiastic but after all you are friends, right.

6. Respect

6. Respect

A must quality to find in a friend. Every relationship has limitations. You may differ in your thoughts, you can have arguments, but having respect for each other is very necessary.

7. Straightforward

7. Straightforward

If you have right to praise your friend at their good work, you should also point out their faults and mistakes. This is the honesty everyone looks for in a friend.

8. Supportive

8. Supportive

What else do you need from a friend? Whether it is your back bench crimes at school, white lies to your parents, difficult hurdles of your life- everything seems tolerable when someone says, "Don't Worry, I'm with you."

9. Enthusiastic

9. Enthusiastic

May be partners in crime or a sudden long drive, getting drenched in rain or listening to your dull poems at midnight, it is your friend who shares all your tantrums enthusiastically.

10. Love You

10. Love You

Last but definitely not the least quality among qualities of a good friend. Parents, partners all may love you. But the unconditional love without changing yourself is the most precious thing you can get from a true friend.

Story first published: Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 19:28 [IST]
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