Friendship
A FRIEND TO ALL IS A FRIEND TO NONE….
Kyra was a popular girl at school. She was clever and fun, and got on well with everyone. It was no accident that she was popular. From an early age, she had made effort to be kind and friendly to everyone. She invited whole class to her birthday party. From time to tome she would give presents to everybody. She was such a busy girl with so many friends that hardly got a chance to spend time with individual friends. However, she felt very lucky, no other girl had so many friends at school and in neighbourhood.
But everything changed on national friendship day. On that day, at school everyone was having great time, drawing, painting, giving gifts. That day in class everyone had to make three presents to give their best friends. Kyra enjoyed the task of choosing three from amongst all the dozens of her friends.
However, when all the presents had been made and shared out among classmates, Kyra was the only one who had not received any present! She felt terrible and spent hours crying. How could it be possible? so much efforts to make friends and in the end, no one saw her as their best friend. Everyone came and tried to console her for a while . But each one only stayed for a short time before leaving.
This was exactly what Kyra had done so many times to others.
She realised that she was a good companion and acquaintance, but she had not been a true friend to anyone. She had tried to pay attention to everyone , but how she had found out that that was not enough to create true friendship.
When she got home that night, created quite a puddle with her tears, and Kyra asked her mother where she could find true friends.
"Kyra my dear", answered her mother, "you cannot buy friends with a smile or a few good friends. If you really want true friends, you will have to give them real time & affection. For a true friend you must always be available in good times and bad."
"But I want to be everybody's friend! I need to share my time among everyone! Kyra protested.
"My dear, you're a lovely girl"said her mother. But you can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time to be available for everyone. So, it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others will be playmates or acquaintances, but they won't be close friends. Hearing this, Kyra decided to change her way , so that she could finally have some true friends.
That nights, in bed, she thought about what she could do to get them. She thought about her mother. Her mother was always willing to help, she put up with all of Kyra dislikes and problems, she always forgave her, she loved her a great deal.
That was what makes friends.
And Kyra smiled from Ear to ear, realising that she already had the best friend anyone could ever want.
FRIENDSHIP IS ALWAYS A SWEET RESPONSIBILITY, NEVER AN OPPORTUNITY….