IS THIS LOVE OR FRIENDSHIP?

WRITTEN BY: SOUMYA SIDHARTH DASH, SAGAR "SK" TALASU

To understand this topic, you have to know what is the real meaning of friendship and love. First of all I want to tell you that it is not related to any person, rather it’s based purely on my own perception. Any resemblance is treated to be purely coincidental.

Friendship means exchange of knowledge, affection, respect in between 2 or more people. True friendship comes from the degree of loyalty to each other. If you explain it in the manner of physics, it is the covalent bond i.e the strongest bond between the persons. But in case of love, the emotion, strong affection and attachment comes.

Yes , there is a relation between friendship and love, for that we say that the friendship is the stepping stone of love. Several times I become confused to see the relation between a boy and a girl. It becomes a question whether they are friends or lovers?

I agree to the fact that not only same gender but opposite gender can be friends. If a boy is good friend to a girl, they can share many things with each other. But in my perspective, the amount of time spend with each other can be an affecting factor. If 2-3 hrs per day are being spent with each other, then it’s friendship. If they are spending more than 5 hrs a day, then what it is? If a boy is always helping the girl then what is that? In that case following situations may arise-

 Either they are closest of friends
 The boy has some weakness towards the girl
 The girl is simply taking advantage of the boy
 Both are in love.

I don’t want to say anything about the point 1 because it maybe a rare case. The next 2 points means one sided love and the girl is using the boy. The last point is the best as both are unable to express their feelings towards each other because both doesn’t know what each other are thinking.

So let’s put some focus on the 2nd and 3rd point where the girl takes advantage of the boy. The girl uses the boy and then after the job is done dumps him. These type of situation is very common in real life. So it’s a humble request to you for opening up your eyes and mind. Friendship is good and love is even better but one-sided love is disastorous.