The importance of the qualities of a good friend cannot be overemphasized in friendship. We often find ourselves amongst bad friends and can’t even tell who our friends are sometimes because we fail to comprehend and watch out for the qualities of a good friend
Good friends are true friends and true friends determines great trends – DollyMchottney
see also: who is a good friend?
10 TREASURED QUALITIES OF A GOOD FRIEND
1)Acceptance:
True friends accept you for who you really are but also help you become who you should be. There’s no discrimination whatsoever, they are people whom you can totally be yourself with and be comfortable in your own skin. They are the ones who know your flaws but still love you anyway. There’s never a need for a pretence of any form or trying so hard to leave an impression for acceptance.
You don’t need someone to complete you, you only need someone who accepts you completely
2)Understanding:
Understanding is actually the first step to Acceptance, you can’t possibly accept what you do not understand. A friend takes time to understand you. Someone who in your absence can say “if she were here this is probably what she would say or do” and they would most likely be right. Someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you even when you have forgotten the words. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
True friendship is to understand and to be understood
3)Caring:
Being caring is equivalent to being concerned. Concern, on the other hand, is equivalent to Sensitivity. Concerned friends are sensitive to our needs. Friends who can easily figure out when something’s wrong and off about you even when you don’t say, because only those who care about you can hear you even when you are quiet.
Your problem, Their problem…. putting on your shoes as though it’s theirs -DollyMchottney
4)Trustworthy:
As important as trust is in a romantic relationship so it is in friendship because all bonds are built on trust and without it, we are all just a bunch of fellas walking alone. Friends in which you can both sleep on the same bed with your two eyes closed and can beat your chest with confidence to say “my friend cannot say or do that” because of how much you’ve come to know and trust them.
trustworthy friends are very hard to come by, and when they do, be sure to keep them without a single hesitation – Edmond Mbiaka
5)Loyalty:
Loyal friends are friends who stay true behind your back. Mind you, loyalty isn’t bought it is earned. Some people aren’t loyal to you, they are loyal to their needs of you. Once these needs change, so does their loyalty. Friends who defend you in your absence because, in the end, it’s not the words of our enemies that we would remember but the silence of our friends. They could say crazy things to your face yet have nothing but the best to say behind your back. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Related are we by blood but Family are we by Loyalty
6)Supportive:
True friends would always have your back even before u ask them to. Anything is possible when you have the right friends there to support you. Friends who support you even when they don’t support your situation. Regardless of the competitive nature of this generation where envy and jealousy have become the order of the day, good friends are genuinely happy and support each other when the need arises.
People would love and support you when its beneficial but true friends would love and support you even when it’s prejudicial – DollyMchottney
7)Honesty:
Indeed, handling the truth is not always easy and not many of us want to take a hike down that boulevard but here’s a shocker; those kinds of friends who can tell you the truth no matter how difficult it might be are actually very important and just the friends you need. These kinds of friends create room for growth. They are friends who don’t tell you what u want to hear but what you need to hear. Of course, it could be a handful to take in sometimes but friendship is not threatened by honest criticism, it is rather strengthened. But mind you, honest criticism differs from hateful criticism in the form of truths.
In a world where we chew and regurgitate lies, Honest friends are hard to find -DollyMchottney.
8)Selfless and Helpful:
We can’t help but concur to the fact that life is more of giving and taking. But even so, real friends never give all because they need, require or expect to take. True friends are selfless and always willing to render a helping hand when they can without an ulterior motive. though, these days there are more of posed helpers than real ones. Friends don’t help each other because they have to but because they want to.
when no one is selfless in a relationship, there is a war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy – Royce White
9)Individuality:
We all need a sense of individuality in any kind of relationship we find ourselves which includes friendship. Being friends doesn’t necessarily mean being up in my business every second of the day. Bonds mustn’t let us lose our sense of individuality. I see friends having issues when their best friends have other friends or having other engagements without them and they feel offended and could go as far as loathing. Everyone has the right to explore and shouldn’t be tied down to a streamlined zone to please another. Pooing together doesn’t necessarily attest to the strength of friendship. Be happy for Your friends, you could also befriend your best friends’ friend because in truth you must not necessarily do everything together.
I was first me before I met you -DollyMchottney
10)Always There:
Even while respecting our sense of individuality, true friends are always there. Being there doesn’t always mean being physically present. It involves knowing and having the conviction that even though we aren’t always physically present but we carry ourselves in our hearts still. A great friendship doesn’t necessarily always require constant conversations, constant togetherness but as far as the relationship lives in our hearts, true friends never part because there is genuine love.
A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out, who’s always there when he’d rather be anywhere else
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