The Value Of True Friendship

How Your Relationships Influence Your Way Of Living

Joren van Schaik
7 min readDec 19, 2018
Image Credits : ju_sajjad0

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas

Thoughtful Questions

With Christmas around the corner, have the following questions also visited your mind lately?

What is real friendship to me?
Which things should I value most in these relationships?
Which qualities am I looking for in others?
How can I become the best friend I can be?
Am I fulfilling my role as a great friend?

You come across a vast amount of people on your path. Every individual has his/her own opinions, daily habits, beliefs and overall vision about living.

As we are slowly closing in on the end of this year, I want to help you meditate on the meaning of the relationships in your life.

What are the essential elements of a healthy, uplifting friendship?
Who are the people that add to our happiness, or detract from it
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We have to acknowledge the fact that our relationships are one of the major sculptors of our identities along…

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Joren van Schaik

Writer, Cinematographer & Video Editor of “WOLVEFANG” on Youtube. Lifelong Student and Free Thinker.