Last update: January 11, 2017
There is no doubt: friends are a real cure-all for health. They are the family we choose. They, from nothing, become people who try to listen to us even if they have no answers to our concerns; they share with us every feeling and every emotion, thus magnifying our life.
What is certain is that there are friends and FRIENDS. There are people who know all our faults and who, despite this, remain by our side and love us. Perhaps there is a blood bond with these people (brothers and cousins ​​are usually great friends due to their presence during our journey in life), but it is not certain.
However, there is a very clear aspect, which is that there are friends who earn the title of "life companions". They are our fortune, our great treasure and thanks to them we keep our tree filled with love.
The tree of friends, the tree of our life
A text by Jorge Luis Borges marvelously illustrates the importance of friends in our life. In this passage of the book The Tree of Friends, we review the types of friends we meet during our lives.
"There are people in our lives who make us happy by mere chance to have crossed our path. Some walk the path alongside us, seeing many moons pass by, others we barely see them between one step and another. We all call them friends and there are many types. Sometimes each leaf on a tree represents one of our friends.
The first to be born is our friend Dad and our friend Mom, who show us what life is. Then come the friends Brothers, with whom we share our space so that they can flourish like us.
But fate introduces us to other friends who we didn't know they would cross our path. Many of them we call them friends of the soul, of the heart. They are sincere, they are true. They know when we are not well, they know what makes us happy.
And sometimes one of these friends of the soul slips into our heart and then we call him in love. He gives light to our eyes, music to our lips, leaps to our feet. But there are also those passing friends, sometimes for a vacation or a day or an hour. They draw a smile on our face the whole time we are with them.
We cannot forget the distant friends, those who are in the tips of the branches and who when the wind blows always appear between one leaf and another.
Time passes, summer is passing, autumn is approaching and we lose some of our leaves, some are born the following summer and others remain for many seasons. But what makes us happy is that the leaves that have fallen continue to live with us, feeding our roots with joy. They are the memory of the wonderful moments when they crossed our path.
I wish you, leaf of my tree, peace, love, luck and prosperity. Today and always… simply because every person who passes through our life is unique. He always leaves a little of himself and takes a little of us. There will be those who take a lot, but there will be no one who leaves nothing. This is the greatest responsibility of our life and the clear proof that two souls do not meet by chance. "
Meaningful relationships based on respect
Healthy relationships are based on respect and balance, they are unwritten contracts that are established through affective and complicit exchanges to which we can open up and show ourselves as we are.
Scientific studies show that emotional and social support protects us from the development of diseases, it favors a correct evolution and protects us from recurring diseases, such as cancer.
Knowing this, it is evident that the best thing that can happen to us in life is to meet someone with whom we can laugh, talk or cry. It is gratifying to know that there are those who care about us and who care what happens to us or what stops happening to us.
In the same way, it is not necessary to have many friends, the most important thing is to have the best ones by your side. It is highly beneficial to know that there are people who love us and that we can count true friends on the fingers of one hand, but gaining special affection is not easy.
