Know Your Friends

All people we mingle and dwell with are not our friend. We may call them friends in our own heart but to some we mean nothing close to a friend to them. There are different levels of friendship which are never really obvious on the surface; it is only when you reach a crisis point in your life that you find out just who your true friends are.

Fake friends are a term used to describe fair-weather or selfish friends. Fake friends are those friends who deceive us and break our trust somewhere down the line. True friends are like diamonds (precious and rare), while fake friends are like autumn leaves found everywhere. A faithful friend is the medicine of life. Friends are rightly called an alter ego and they are perhaps those people with whom we can share our joys and sorrows. True friends will offer their unfailing support no matter what we try to do, even if they don’t agree with our choices they will still support us in them.

A real friend and fake friend can be hard to distinguish, but they are very different! Adversity is the litmus test of any friendship. A big difference between real and fake friends is how they deal with our ups and downs. If you’re feeling down, a fake friend will pat you awkwardly on the shoulder and try to change the subject. Our real friends will wrap us in their arms and listen to our blubber all night, if we want them to. They will always listen to our moan and rant and offer us a shoulder to cry on whenever we need it. Real friends are there for you, whether you’re happy or sad.

When the time comes that the partying and socialising has to come to an end and instead of sending out party invitations you are issuing requests for help and support, just see how many friends will answer the call. It is in tough times that you discover just who your true friends are, when you reach out for support during your darkest days and find that they are still there to support you. A fake friend is never really there for you. The hardest part about friendship is that it may start true and become fake as years go by. Or maybe someone first was pretending to be your friend and it grew into a real bond. It's not all black and white, but if someone is showing these signs, it's time for you to sit down and think about how true of a friend they are.

Real friends are people you can go to for anything. You know they will always be on your side, through thick and thin. Fake friends might as well be scum of the Earth for all the support they will give you. If you can trust anyone to not gossip around town about your dark little secrets, it’s your real friends. Fake friends will treat your secrets like it’s nothing sacred. They will never think twice to talk about your insecurities in public and embarrass you. They talk behind our back rather than talking face to face with us. In times of adversity, they desert others and leave them in a lurch. A real friend values our confidence, and will not tell anyone.

One should be careful while choosing friends and keep such fake friends at arm’s length. Joan Jett had once rightly remarked, “You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.” What's best for you is to say goodbye to the people you discover are fake friends, and keep close to those you know are true. It is always good to keep fake or fair-weather friends at arm’s length. Remember, a man is known by the company he keeps.

20 Best Quotes about Success

It is clear as crystal that everybody wants to be successful, no matter how you define it. Because we all strive for success in our endeavors. And many of us are determined to achieve greatness. However, when most of us think of success we usually think of material benefits, happiness, and accomplishment. Certainly, success can include all of these things and more.

With these things in mind, I have compiled a list of 20 best quotes about success so you can view success from different angles.

Smile Always

Smile is a form of our features into a pleased, kind, or amused expression, typically with the corners of the mouth turned up and the front teeth exposed. It is also an art of human science which derive from inner satisfaction of life. The subject which has no syllabus, no exams nor to learn, it is built in knowledge gifted by the nature [Almighty God] to us, all in all its inside us hidden like a soul.

Rule Over Envy.

Envy is defined as painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another along with the desire to possess that same advantage. It occurs when we lack a desired attribute enjoyed by another. Envy requires two parties, like you and that neighbour, when you want his/her new car and you wish you were the one riding around with the top down. You feel envy when you want something someone else has or posseses. Envy also need not always carry a negative connotation. Envy can be used to indicate a desire to equal another in achievement or excellence as in emulation. Note that emulation does not have any negative connotations to it.

Empathy is a Yes Attitude

Empathy is an attitude that defines humanity and according to the Wikipedia, it was define as the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feelings with the heart of another.

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”
― Steve Martin

Failure is the key to success

Failure can be said to be the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective or purpose, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Without failure, there would be success. Failure is very real, but it is not an end destination -- it's another event in the course of life. Failure is not the final result of anything in life but an opportunity for us to learn and succeed.
"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final."-Mike Ditka

Early in life, we were opportune to learn about failure. As kids, we raced against each other on the field and are tested in school and given grades each year. These thus helped us to quickly learn what it means to win or lose, pass or fail. Not winning tends to have a stigma around it, and can ultimately lead to labels like “failure” or “loser.”

Time

Time as defined by wiki is the indefinite continued progression of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.