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People Make Friends for Different Motives
Friendships can be categorized as follows:
1. Friendship of pleasure. You are a friend so long as the relationship is entertaining and
fun, i.e., a fair weather friend.
2. Friendship of convenience. This is where people make friendships to gain favors.
These friendships last until the usefulness of the other person ends. These friendships
are not permanent.
3. True friendship. This is based on mutual respect and admiration. True friends are
people who have the good of each other at heart and act accordingly. Good deeds
come back to us in the form of good friends. There is lasting goodness on both sides.
It is based on character and commitment.

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Prosperity brings friends, adversity reveals them. Fair weather friendship is described
well by the following poem:
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all
There are none to decline your nectar Ed wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People who are true friends in the real sense help one another, but these are not favors.
They are acts incidental to friendship. And if they don't help they would be failing in their
relationships.
Relationships don't just happen, they take time to build. They are built on kindness,
understanding, and self sacrifice, not on jealousy, selfishness, puffed up egos, and rude
behavior.
Relationships should never be taken for granted. Once relationships are established,
they need to be nurtured constantly. Nobody is perfect. Expecting perfection is setting
yourself up for disappointment.