The Ideal Friend

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a friend is a person who you like and enjoy being with. Again, according to The American Heritage High School Dictionary, a friend is a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.

These two definitions aren't any different from each other. Suffice to say that the intended meaning is portrayed in different wordings.

An "Ideal Friend" is one who is exactly right for a person. The perceived comprehension of the phrase is then a subjective one - just as it pleases the subject.

So, everyone has his own subjective definition of who an ideal friend should be, depending on the criteria, mostly subconsciously prescribed by the subject.

But looking at it from a less subjective point of view, an ideal friend should be a "good" one. I understand that some people (mostly those who are into metaphysics) would have a problem with that. But then, to and fro, there must be a standard - a yardstick.

An ideal friend should exhort one to kindness, honesty, truthfulness and other virtues. He shouldn't exhort one to lying, cheating and other vices.

We all have a lifespan. Life itself has a span. Friends would always constitute an important part of our lives. Mingle with the wrong ones, and you would be in "trouble". Friends undoubtedly have great influence on our personal and outside lives.

It is thus expedient, that we are careful in choosing our friends, not hesitating to lay them off our lives when they constitute constant, perpetual blockades to our positive ideals while making sure that we keep our interaction sphere as rich in its constituent varieties as possible. This would ensure that we engage in more heuristic considerations and our thoughts, more holistic and all encompassing.

SHALOM MEANS PEACE

Shalom,
In Hebrew means peace
Salaam,
In Arabic - a sister language means peace - same!
 
Peace from bottom to top frees breeze
And those who submit completely, feel at ease
And proclaim it to each other as a routine 

Nothing feels better than wishing one peace
For tranquility and happiness are only two condiments encapsuled in peace
Of grandeur it is, uttered and followed with a warm handshake 

For white or black, the same applies through
For rich or poor, there are no niche specifications
For short or tall, it's the same letter word

The better isn't one who possesses such attributes - aforestated
For the hero is no more than one who is most conscious
OF GOD ALMIGHTY - THE VERY ULTIMATE

FOR HOW LONG?

I looked away, yet I couldn't afford a disdain
I had to limp through donkey periods straight
As dedicated thus, perhaps it would remain same 

Even as I said not to
I frequently ought to
Reason why I had to barge and muffle often

Like some terse were what you mouthed hitherto
And like a tern were you in what was like an ocean
How much of a tenet is education to you clown
Some space is all that seems to be clamoured 

Donkey periods spent they say, heals
But in this case, perhaps it only kills
By and large, time tells
And for it all, I'm glad we all said best