Thing that can Affect Friendship

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A friendship is a bond of mutual affection. To me, friendship is a bond that people share in which they have mutual kindness, loyalty, respect, and equality. According to Aristotle there are three types of friendships. They are utility friendships, pleasure friendships, and goodness friendships. Allow me to elaborate on what they mean; a utility friendship is when you can benefit from the other. A pleasure friendship is based upon admiration and desire to be in someone’s company. Lastly, a friendship based on goodness is the desire to see the other do better and succeed. It’s the longing for the other party to be a better him or her. It’s a “one hand washes the other” bond. For example, I have a really good friend and our main goal is to make sure that we are both good and are always on the up and up. We keep each other moving forward to become better people. In our friendship, there is no sugar coating of anything. If I have done anything wrong, she tells me to make me better and vice versa. I am honored to have her friendship because I know that there is a high chance at a long lasting friendship. Aside from the categories of friendship, I am going give you further knowledge. In this essay, I am going to be addressing some questions that may arise about friendship and the a few things that can affect it. Some questions about friendship is whether people of different levels should remain friends, can you have more than one friend, how are friendships affected by technology and can men and women platonically be friends.

Aristotle believes in many things about friendship. One of the many things that he believes is that friends who are on different levels shouldn’t be friends. This is because their needs and pleasures may change...

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