My classification of friends you should keep in your life

CLASSIFICATION OF FRIENDS

A wise scholar once said, “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” There’s another popular saying that “Power and Money are fruits of Life, but family and friends are roots of life.

I was once caught lost in thoughts wondering what kind of friends to take with me as i made the transition from one phase of life to another! I realize that the same question has been bordering others as well, but the thing is that when it comes to friendship, there's bound to be a few bad eggs in the crates which now make it hard for us to think about live long friendship. I am some who has lost a lot of friends due to theses so trust me I KNOW!!!

Due to little bad experiences, we tend to lose faith but the truth is that there will always be few friends that are worth to be in your life for a long time. Hence I decided to create a classification of the friends worth keeping into categories. Feel free to agree or disagree with my view, whichever way; do share your view on the comment section.

Let’s find out who these friends that are worth keeping in your life are.

The Unlikely Friend… 

An unlikely friend is the friend who adds to your life by being so different to you. This is that friend that makes you see the world from a different view.

The Wise Mentor… 

The wise mentor as your friend doesn’t have to be someone who shares the same occupation or hobbies with you. It’s simply someone who’s a few steps ahead of you in life and has enough wisdom and patience to guide you in the right direction.

According to Bob Proctor “A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself and helps bring it out of you.”

The difference between these kinds of mentoring and other mentoring is that he is both your friend, confidant and wisdom bank.

The Friend from a Different Culture…

This is your family from a distant land.

The good thing about this friendship is that both of you benefits from each other. You get the chance to share knowledge, experiences, personality development, multiculturalism, and awareness about other people’s culture.

The Loyal Best Friend…

This friend acts as your partner in crime. They have your back no matter what. They are that one friend that borrows something from you for so long that when you need it, you have to borrow it back and then they ask you, when are you going to return it? These friends don’t know the difference between their things and yours. 

The Driven Friend…

This friend is an optimist, an anchor and a source of inspiration. That one person you can call when you feel like giving up. They are the friends who believe in us. They don’t have the word “quit” or “giving up” in their dictionary. All that’s in their dictionary is all about dreams, inspiration, hard work, resilience, persistence etcetera.  

The Crazy/Fun Friends… 

All works and no play make Jack a dull boy. Fun is a necessary part of life, however we can be too focused sometimes that we forget that we need time out. This is that one friend that knows where to find fun. We need such person is our lives.

The Well-connected Friends… 

This friend is definitely worthy of being kept in your life.

This is that friend that is well-organized and well-connected; we all seem to find ourselves needing with such strong networks. We are always one person away from whatever we are looking for.

I don’t understand how they do it but this friend tends to have connection for every need - whether business, work and career development.

I am not saying that these friendship are worthy because of what we can get from them but come to think of it; what is the essence of having friends when they can’t help when you have needs?  Beside the friends I listed here, I believe we also need friends who fancy us and of course let's not forget the lazy friends as I classify as that under my friend’s list!