True Friendship.

There are so many great friends in life, let me tell you something about friendship.

I will first start with my closest friend, my first friend in life "My Dad" (smile).

When I started living with my dad, I started realizing what true friendship means.

He always treats me like his best friend, I started living with him when I was in Class(4).

True friendship is from the heart how much you care about someone.

How painful it is when you see your best friend cry, how you sacrificed for one another, watch one another's back.

You should be one another's secret keeper, no disrespect to one another in public.

My dad never disgraces me in public, he never shouts at me in public.

He knows everything about me, even things I don't know about myself.

He always wants the best for me, he flogs me just for me to know that what I am doing is bad.

If I continue it will lead me in the wrong direction.

Most times he flogs me with the word of God, he hates seeing me go sad.

Since I started living with him, he has been the one who always washes my clothes until the time I ask him to stop,.

Even my friends keep calling me " dad's boy hahaha".

I am saying all this not because is my dad, but because he treated me as his best friend in life.

That is how it should be between parents and child.

What I am trying to say is that parents should not give everything to a child just because they ask 4 it, remember the bible says you should train up a child in the way he should grow so when he grows old he will not depart from it.

It doesn't mean the people who you choose as best friends should be the ones in your community, church, country or have the same faith.

Let me tell you about a friend who we met ten(10) years ago in my country Sierra Leone, Freetown city.

His name is Sam. We met in the year 2010 at "Abigail D Butcher S.D.A Primary School Zion Kola Tree".

When I was a teacher at that school, he came with his friends all the way from "The United States of America" to help fix solar.

In helping with electricity for everyone in the school, within a short time, we became brothers.

I sometimes help them with their work, we sometimes go to work and eat together.

Oh, I remember how he enjoys one of our local foods called "cassava leaves hahaha".

And get used to each other day by day, but unfortunately, he came for less than two (2) weeks.

But our friendship didn't end after he left.

He told his mom about his new brother, not even a friend, and the food too hahaha" Cassava leaves.

I also talked to my new mom " he never addresses me as a friend.

But before he left for the state he wanted to leave me with something nice that I will always remember him.

But by then he was just a student, he was not financially stable, so he figured out something nice.

A strong Phillips headphone and mp3, that was great, for just a short time he knows what I like so much.

I too wanted to give him something but by then I was not receiving a salary "Laugh out loud" I was just a volunteer.

He never complains or compares anything, all he knows we are brothers.

We're always there for each other, supporting each other, and praying for each other always.

There is a saying by one Jamaica reggae Singer "No man is an island, no man stands alone.

" get this from me " if you want to see trees you first plant the seeds from there you get trees and fruits".

This means if your friend is going down you need to help each other, water your friend until it turns to the tree and bear fruit.

This tells us that true friendship comprises honesty, courage, Faith love and trust etc.

Don't go into friendship with someone for a selfish purpose.

Let me explain it in a better way, for example, if you meet someone in a club or bar for the first time in your life.

You guys became friends through drinking and having fun, it continued for some time.

Until the day one is financially broke or he decides not to drink alcohol anymore.

You may want to know why! Four (4) years ago I used to drink alcohol.

Party with a friend, go to a club or bar with them.

When I decide not to drink alcohol any more things change between us, no more regular calls, no more frequent chat.

Our ways of doing things are not the same anymore.

If I decided to drink alcohol again we're going to be ok again "hahaha".

But again if you don't lose some friends over time you will not grow in life.

Because of the natural part of growing you must lose some friends.

All that has an expiring date trust learn to watch one another's back.

Don't wait until it gets worse before you help, keep one another secret.

God bless all real friends......