FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

• the tendency to desire what is best for the other,
• sympathy and empathy,
• honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart,
• mutual understanding.

In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same continuum. The study of friendship is included in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and zoology. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles.

my hobbies

I have many different hobbies that I do depending on the time, a certain day of the week, or even depending on the time of the day. I always try to get all of my friends involved with most, if not all of my hobbies since these kinds of hobbies are the most fun being done with groups of people rather than by myself. I am more than capable of doing these hobbies my myself, but I do not get as much enjoyment out of my hobbies if I do them alone.

Growing up I have many hobbies and activities that I enjoy to do on my free time. I have always loved hunting with my friends. Every summer I spend all of my time with my friends and family. When summer ends I usually start getting ready for hunting season. My friends and I usually go each weekend to our land and go hunting and sit by the fire and hang out.

As a man my hobbies revolved around baseball and basketball. I spent most of my summers playing for a traveling basketball team. When the basketball season ended I would start back up on playing chess. I am not a indoor type of person so most of my hobbies usually tend to be outdoors and away from the house. But sometimes I love to sleep in the whole day because of being tired.

"How to mend a Broken Heart"

People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way. For me,
Everyone alive has felt the sting and the effect of a broken heart. It feels life someone has run you over, that your life will surely end. But remember my friends that you are not alone. If we could take a look at it from a different perspective it is mostly about being rejected or pushed aside more that the broken relationship. We as human beings need love more than anything else to be happy and to grow healthy. This is one of life's passages that is very painful. I have experienced a few of them in my life time. It took me more than once to learn valuable lessons. I first want to say to each and everyone of you who have experienced this or who is now experiencing this. You are never alone. It may seem that way, because your body has went into shock. There are many elements that needs to be addressed here. This too will pass but at the time it seems like you are going to die. Love will come again my friends. Believe me, it will come again, but hopefully the things that you have learned about the successes and the failures will make you more aware of what is required for your serenity. One must have faith. Whether it be God or some sort of Higher power. One must look outside yourself to believe. Hope that there will be a brighter day. The sun will shine again my friends I guarantee it. Self esteem, knowing that you are a great person and it was not you that was rejected. It may seem that way. That person that broke your heart has lost. They will never know the joy of loving you. The secrets of your soul will not be there. Therefore they lose. Support is so important. Choose your friends wisely my friends. Be careful who you share you burdens with. Find 1 or 2 persons that you trust and eventually when you lean on them and they support you, you will get your strength back. Remember you are not alone in your struggle to heal. I pray that this helps someone out there and if you ever have any questions, please feel free to write.

what is love?

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. The word love is both a verb and a noun. Love is not a single feeling but an emotion built from two or more feelings. Anything vital to us creates more than one feeling, and we also have feelings about our feelings (and thoughts about our feelings). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Definitions

The English word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love." Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, although other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.

When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf. narcissism).

In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.

Impersonal love

A person can be said to love a country, principle, or goal if they value it greatly and are deeply committed to it. Similarly, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause may sometimes be borne not of interpersonal love, but impersonal love coupled with altruism and strong political convictions. People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with those things. If sexual passion is also involved, this condition is called paraphilia.

Interpersonal love

Interpersonal love refers to love between human beings. It is a more potent sentiment than a simple liking for another. Unrequited love refers to those feelings of love that are not reciprocated. Interpersonal love is most closely associated with interpersonal relationships. Such love might exist between family members, friends, and couples. There are also a number of psychological disorders related to love, such as erotomania.

Throughout history, philosophy and religion have done the most speculation on the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. In recent years, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have added to the understanding of the nature and function of love.