Health Benefits of Friendship

Health Benefits of Friendship: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly” (Proverbs 18:24). This implies that friendship with others is an investment we must be willing to make. If you want to be friends with people, show them that you are interested in them: and not what you hope to gain from them. From my personal experience, most people who dance around us do so for varying reasons that may not include genuine interest in us or our welfare. You could have friends because you hold an important position, have money to spend on them or serve as a channel for them to benefit from the system.

This is not genuine friendship. A friend is someone you can trust, who has your back, and is available to help you in your time of need. Regardless of the possibility of fair-weather friends taking advantage of people to defraud them, it is important that all humans should cultivate friendship with others. The figures below explain in detail why friendship is beneficial to humans, and why we must make an effort to be friendly towards other people.