Zeitgeist of friendship
I wonder what friendship is. Is it a feeling or emotion or phenomenon or something else? Whatever the friendship is, it is still something people can't live without. Well, one won't die because he has no friends in his life though he will feel great lack of something important. Every one of us needs someone who can support us and listen for us if we will need it.
It is an ancient feeling or phenomenon and it was carried through ages till nowadays. Love and friendship are like brother and sister; those are of the same nature but of different kind. People say that friendship is a wingless love. We have feelings of the same strength with feelings of love towards our friends. Though, those feelings are different from feelings we have towards our wives and husbands.
But the nature of friendship was also changed with the lapse of time and with the flight of time. Times changed and a lot of is changed. It is a pity that friendship is also changed. For some tens of years ago people were told that it is important to care about friends and never hurt them. There also were those who were able to waive one's benefit for the sake of friends.
No matter how hard you will try you will barely manage to find such people today. Modern people are told that it is important to care about own self more than about other people. They say that if you won't take care of you no one will. It never was so though it is so today. It is so today because we've done our best for things were like this, we've neglected friendship.