By Osarennoma Ogbeide
Your net worth is determined by your network. Birds of the same feather flock together. You are only as good as the people you surround yourself with. There are countless sayings and quotes about friendship and they are best understood when you can relate to them. I believe that friendships could make or mar you especially because of the sayings above.
Some say your university friends last the longest, for others, it’s those that they meet along their career and for a few; it could be their childhood friends. It could even be as spontaneous as just meeting someone for the first time in an Uber ride and it’s like you’ve known each other for ages. There are many avenues to meet your friends; however it takes one path of understanding each other to sustaining that friendship. Let’s look at an interesting story.
Demilade is just about to start university but before then, she has been praying earnestly to have good roommates. Beyond having good roommates, she hopes she finds wonderful friends with the same values she has and not the kind that steer you away from your goals as some movies portray. She eventually starts school and sees that her prayers are answered as her roommates are better than she expected. She shared things in common with her roommate, Katherine in particular, and we can say that marked the beginning of greater things. Katherine had course mates in the two rooms beside theirs and she introduced them to Demilade. To their greatest surprise, Demilade attended the same fellowship with one of them. The friendship circle started to increase gradually.
Outside of this little circle in the hostel, Demilade had a course mate, her first friend in the faculty. It was not long before Demilade introduced her to the rest, the things they had in common were just too coincidental that it was beginning to seem unreal. A match made in heaven you can say. The group became complete when everyone met Katherine’s quiet study partner and the real journey of friendship began. A group of 6 can be a lot don’t you think? You however forget the magnitude of the number when it becomes a family.
It could be so surreal how people would understand your point of view without judging you the way others would, how they push you to meet and even surpass your dreams, how they are not ashamed to be your cheerleaders even when you’re feeling down, ones who tell you your flaws and help you overcome them, ones who create opportunities for you that you couldn’t on your own, ones who teach you greeter values, the act of love, sharing and sacrifice, ones that eat together, know when it’s time to get serious, definitely know how to have fun and be crazy around themselves, go on trips, and even pray together because it can only be God that orchestrated the squad.
I’m almost certain that you have a couple of friends on you mind that are the definition of happiness. If they do all these and many more, then congratulations! You’ve found your true friends.
