Unusual Benefits of Friendship -Harvey Rosenberg

Many benefits of friendship are well known. Friends offer

1. closeness with others,
2. a listening ear to share challenges or joys,
3. a shoulder to lean on when life is difficult,
4. companionship,
5. the ability to tell you the truth when others might not (assuming you want to hear the truth).

Friends don't let friends live on the streets.

But the biggest benefit that friendships offer each of us, whether we're a kid just entering daycare or a 90 year old great grandmother, is happiness.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them in noble deeds. ---Aristotle


Harvey Rosenberg