Friendship is one of the most difficult thing to maintain in a life time. There may be a lot of road blocks which prevents us from carrying on true friendship for a longer time period. If a friendship is not nurtured properly it would eventually burn out mid way and might end up in losing a real good friend. As we all know losing a friend is too much easy, but gaining one is the most difficult part.
We start developing friends from a very little age and as we grow up we make new friends. At the same time we also lose some of our childhood friends due to emergence of new friends. As we grow older we would also be able to identify real friends and we naturally ignore the ones that we find out to be faking ones.
The real problem arises when we complete our studies and becomes busy with our job and family life. At this time majority of us tend to lose friends due to various reasons and we may feel very much dissapointed at this. We really find it hard to maintain the friendship level as we used to do it when we were in schools, colleges or even when we were bachelors.Here I would like to suggest 10 important things to do so that we would not lose our good friends in the long run.
1) Implementing Meetups on a Regular Basis
It is always a good idea to implement to conduct occasional meet ups with your friends along with their families. This would help in strengthening the friendship bonds to a good extend.
2) Ringing them Talking to friends on your cell phone or land phone on a frequent basis is a good idea to stay in touch. It helps in better communication and also helps in maintaining friendship.
3) Keep sending emails
In the Internet era, emails are a main source of maintaining friendship. It is cheap, fast and an effective way to communicate with your friends and keep informed about your friends current status.
4) Through Social Networking Sites
Social Networking site is proving to be a major source of networking and helps to engage with your friends in an effective way. A lot of social networking sites are available such as Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 etc through which you could stay in touch with your friends and also find out your old pals.
5) Inviting them for your special functions
Inviting your friends for your special functions such as marriages, birthdays, house warming etc further increases your friendship bond and is considered to be one of the best way of friends meetup.
6) Paying a visit to their house
Paying an occasional visit to your friend’s house, alone or with your family is another great way to strengthen your friendship. Even if your are going for a long trip and if your friend’s house fall in your route map, it is always good to pay a surprise visit.
7) Sending Wishes on their Special Days
Sending wishes on your friend’s special days like birthday, anniversaries etc can boost your friendship level. You can send wishes either via email, courier, phone or in person.
8) Offering a Helping Hand when the chips are down
All of us goes through a bad phase atleast once in our life time. This is a period when we look upon for some consolation from our close friends and relatives. It is always a good idea to offer a helping hand and consolation to your friend when he is going through a tough phase in his life.
9) Visiting them during times of death, marriage or illness.
Death, marriage, illness etc are some of the few occasions when a friend is most needed. Do not forget to visit your friend during these occasion and it would surely strengthen your friendship in the long run.
10) Being Loyal and Trust worthy
This is the most important of all. We always love people who are loyal and trustworthy. On the other hand, we hate people and do not like to remember who are fraud and dishonest towards us. So be loyal, honest and trustworthy towards your friends and they are sure to remember you throughout their life and thereby making strong bonds between your friendships.
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