Love and Friendship

Essay by cup2003College, UndergraduateA+, February 2004

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Throughout our lives we are constantly meeting new people and forming relationships that may or, may not develop into anything more serious than a casual exchange in conversation. Relationships will always vary in the degree of emotional closeness. Some people may have a very strong relationship where opinions and feelings are shared with each other, while others may chose not to share personal experiences instead, opting for easygoing conversations and random topics. In today's society everyone has a different perspective of what they see. The personal and intimate relationship that is shared between a man and a woman can be seen from many different perspectives.

A relationship is love and appreciation being shared between two people while at the same time they are indulging themselves in each others lives. A relationship is a connection between two individuals whether it is mother and child, male and female, or friend and friend.

A relationship can be defined as something sacred, something meant to be shared between two people over a period of time. In the essay "On Friendship" written by Francine Du Plessix Gray she gives her perspective on the relationship between men and women.

"Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy" this is a quote from Francine Du Plessix Gray. She believed that there wasn't any such thing as true love that with love you get a false sense of what's real. Varying opinions and conflicting perspectives can quickly lead to disagreements and animosity between people. However relationships formed with others all have positive and negative aspects to them. Unfortunately when people consider starting a new...