Is Friendship for a Lifetime?

Is friendship for a lifetime? Nobody can give a right answer to this question; we expect that friendships are for a lifetime and in case of real friendship I am sure that friendship can exist as long you live.
Friendship is one of the most important things in our life and we all have periods with problems or we need advice. Even if you are married or you have a relationship there are always things which you prefer to talk in the first place with your friends; not that your husband or wife don't want to listen to these problems but a friend has another view on certain issues than the person where you live with.

A lifetime friendship can start when you are a little child but many times many of these friendships are only for a certain period. You get friends when you are going to school; to play with and probably you have many common interests. When you become older it is hard to keep these friendships alive. Probably you will have a relationship and you marry and the same will happen with your friends. Keeping in touch is not always easy because very often you live far from each other and your free time is limited.

Most people are going to work outside and in the evening they spent most of the time together with their husband or wife. If they have children it is often difficult to make time free for your childhood best friends but there are certainly friendships which can exist for a lifetime. Especially if you are in a sports club or another kind of activity which you share it is perfect possible that the friendship will be so close that you can give your friendship a lifetime agreement.

When you become adult you will find mostly new friends. It happens mostly when you don't expect it. This can be near the place you live or during a travel or even online. On this stage of age you have other interests and also other kind of problems where you need a friend for. The key is to make certain agreements to keep in touch with each other.

I don't have strong friendship bounds from the time when I was a child or even from the time I was below 25 years old and it was not necessary to keep them alive. It happens from time to time that I meet some of my friends from that time but nothing happens to give it a chance to keep them alive.

I really believe that lifetime friendship exist and I almost sure that I found one eleven years ago. It happened during a travel to Andalusia (Spain). Like always I am used to make a travel in group and I found a few friends there. After this travel we made appointment with five friends and came together 4 or 5 times years together during the year to visit a museum or another cultural activity. We finished these days always with a nice dinner and made some other travels together. Our tour leader was one of the friends I made there but a few years ago she died and also the appointments in group disappeared but I have one friend from that time which I consider now as my friend for a lifetime.

I made one travel to Carinthia with this friend, also an organized travel in group, and since then our friendship became closer. We called each other several times and a few years ago we started to visit different cities in our hometown. In the beginning it happened every two or three months but now almost one in a month and we call each other several times because we don't live in the same city and it is not possible to visit each other every week. Even if it should be possible I doubt that visiting each other too frequently will have a good effect for a long time friendship.

The use of Internet makes it possible to find friends online. There are many dating sites where you can find friends online but most of them are searching for a relationship and if you are searching for a friend you will become many disappointed. I found the last two years some good online friends in writing sites and some of them are now friends for more than a year.

Keeping in touch is really not difficult; e-mail and messenger services make it possible to keep these friendships alive. These friendships are still young and it is difficult to say now if these friendships are for a lifetime but I really believe that some of them are for a lifetime.

Friendships are important in life and if you find a real friend I am quite sure that real friendships exist for a lifetime. It happens very frequently that friendships have a longer lifetime than a romantic relationship or a marriage and you can also have lifetime friendships with someone of the opposite sex. True friendship is really beautiful and offers you benefits for a lifetime.