FRIENDSHIP: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUE MEANING OF THIS WORD

Greetings and welcome dear readers of this prestigious platform, especially to all those users who make daily life in the #Projecthope community, the topic that concerns us this time, is related to the value of friendship and how we perceive it according to the connotation that as humanity we have assigned to this word.

Therefore, it is necessary to understand that friendship is assumed as that inter-personal bond that takes place between two or more people and although it is assumed that we can also establish this type of bond with animals, psychologically the term is associated with human value.

Thus, the bond of friendship is directly related to a state of sympathy and harmonious empathy that is executed between the interested parties, without interest and looking out for the welfare of the other.

In this sense, I would like to exemplify the above, starting from an extraordinary story that I had the chance to read in the book "La culpa es de la vaca" space where the rhetoric of a soldier who gave everything for his country and the only one who bet on his country's life was his great childhood friend.

So the story of Juan and Carlos begins like this:

Juan and Carlos are two enthusiastic young men who have known each other since childhood, they have established a great bond of friendship and in many cases it was thought that this bond was one of brotherhood due to the ideal help that one represented for the other.

However, for reasons of life these young men were recruited and sent to one of the strictest places due to the war conflict that was taking place there, and for the love of their flag they did not hesitate even for a moment to go out to battle to fight for better conditions for their country and for each of the families that were betting on their victory.

As the days went by, these young men became a reference in the military battalion they formed, in each of the expeditions or battles to which they were assigned, these enthusiastic boys had managed to manage to cover each other's backs.

However, as fate would have it, Carlos was sent without prior notice to a highly militarized zone, his job was a simple observation and analysis expedition, unfortunately for this young man, everything could not be so fantastic, it was the first time that Carlos would go on a mission without the company of his friend Juan and without knowing his future, a great ambush awaited him on the road and which ended up wiping out almost all the young soldiers of that battalion.

At this point, the news was not long in coming and it was obvious that Juan was going to find out and even though he begged his immediate boss to let him go in search of his big brother, the latter prevented him from doing so, claiming that it was too late and that his great friend was already dead.

However, Juan, without thinking about it, in the first moment he had, escaped from the detachment in search of his great friend and after more than 5 hours without knowing anything about them, Juan, very badly wounded, almost in agony, returned with the body of his friend Carlos.

He was immediately attended to, but the scolding from his Captain was not long in coming, he had just disobeyed an order soldier, I told him that his friend was already dead, I ask him was it worth risking his life that way? Of course it was worth it my captain, when I arrived at the place, Carlos was still alive and he could tell me looking into my eyes, I knew you would come for me.

As you will see, this story demonstrates the true meaning of friendship, which beyond the adversities, is a reflection of love that we can express to other people, no doubt we are all aware that family is not chosen, however, friendships and even more so good friendships are only our own decision.

So I take this opportunity to thank life and the great friends it has given me, because no matter the problems and adversities, they are willing to give us that helping hand so that we can continue to move forward.

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