Winning and Keeping Friends

To win friends by being yourself, by showing appreciation to people's good deeds, by doing simple things to them, by being approachable and accommodating. Call your friends by their names, call them through the phone or by sending messages through texting just to say hello. Communication is very important too. Invite them in your home to chat with them and to drink beer. During weekends, you ussually spend most of your time for your family, but when your friends need your help, don't hesitate to help them. You help them in their financial needs but more so in their moral and spiritual needs, pray for them. You can buy almost anything, but not a friend. You can only win them. If you hear that a friend had said something negative against you, at the right time and place you must talk to him or her in a diplomatic way.

Meeting people every day offers opportunities to interact with different personalities. Since no two persons are the same, such interactions are rather difficult. Winning their friendships is even a greater challenge. More often than not, people tend to shy away from the idea of getting into a deep relationship with others. Either they don't want to undergo the process or they refuse the risk to be hurt. You can break this barrier of friendship by simply being sincere and open to them, finding ways where you can be of help and assuring them that you are always there when needed. You need not to be rich in order to do this, a word or two for comfort or praise, and a smile- there are all what you can give to make them feel at home in our lives. Let us not think of what they can do for us. Instead let us think of how you can serve their needs.

To have a long-lasting friend, one must be sincere. Even shaking hands, it must have a feelings or a tap on his shoulder. A true friend must have an integrity and can be trusted, somebody who can keep a secret. Our world is getting impersonal and the relationships with people are becoming very mechanical. However, a heart full of trust and sincerity of purpose can jolt people back into the reality of their humanness. After all, we are made to love and by all means, we should live accordingly to the goal. By doing our part in loving and by doing our share in giving, we will see friendships being won and influence being cast. It is only through this way that we can touch people's lives with ours.