Friend or Foe ?

Friend: A person whom one knows, trust or even like.

I’m sure that all of you want a good qualities and understanding behavior to look for in a friend. However, it is not easy getting to know a person if you have difficulty in making friends.

For example, Nicole Richie is one of Paris’s Hilton best friends. They’ve known each other for a quite long time. However, there’s the time when everything’s going upside down and they can’t handle their friendship. There’s this one incident where Paris wanted a double wedding with Nicole but it didn’t happen. The situation occurs when Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden was dating Paris last time while Nicole is engaged with Madden’s brother Joel. Paris wanted to have a double wedding with her best friend Nicole but she is not even engaged to Benji. One of the news writer said Paris thinks that she could rake in millions by the wedding and to do it in order to sell the pictures. In addition, she said if she had a child maybe a daughter, she wanted to give her daughter’s name a twisted version of Nicole daughter’s name which is "Summer Harlow". Nicole was so upset with Paris being so annoying and decided to end their friendship. But, Paris rep says "It was not true and whatsoever."

Basically from the situation, we can conclude that to have a positive relationship, ask yourself first, ‘how well do you know that person?’ and‘does she or he understand you well enough or you yourself understand them well enough?’ Understand people’s feelings are the most important things that will manage a good relationship. Choose a person wisely that can connect with you through joyful times, sadness, or even madness.

Once you truly know that person, it will be easy for you to diminish a chance knowing other person who causes you pain and torture you in the future. Don’t make assumptions without knowing that person. This may cause bad implications and arguments in the relationship. Spending some time with that person to communicate would be a nice thing to do and it enables us to see the other sides of that person. Trust your instinct and be positive towards your relationship.

By: Nadia binti Wahid