A GOOD FRIEND CARES DEEPLY...........

Friendship sans care survives seldom.  I don't care is the attitude contributed by the modern era.  It is the outcome of self-centredness.  "Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty."  says Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.  Carring involves a keen attentiveness to know the likes and dislikes of a person. It evokes sensitivity in you.  A Six digit salary can create clique but not friends who care for each other.

Removal of care from friendship is like removing blood from the body.  Care brings the warmth in friendship.  It is often a spontaneous gesture that sometimes it may go unnoticed.  If you make a survey to find out what matters most in a good friend.  Care may not come on the top of the list.  But if you put this quality on a list of traits and ask people to rate its importance, you'll see it rise near the top.

"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do but in the inward things we are", says Edwin Hubbel Chaplin. It is an attitude that comes from the heart.  It is quite amazing to see people using the word "take care" without having a slightest intention of taking care of anyone.  You may watch any television show.  At the end of the show the anchor says, "Bye bye, take care".  How easily we use that word for a near stranger.  I don't care - these three little words are like a sting of a serpent that causes fatal end in a friendship.

The word "care" is originated from the German word -"karo".  Etymologically care means "sad".  It alludes to the idea that a caring person feels sad when you feel sad.  The ex-pression of compassion is the net result of it.  It allows a friend to enter your world and feel your pain.  If you truly care for a friend in a meaningful and deep level you have to involve both our heart and head.  The ancient philosopher Aristotle rightly observed, "A friend is a single sould dwelling in two bodies".  The essence of caring could be summed up in this way; "Your life makes a genuine difference to my own life."