Treasure Friendship 珍惜友谊

Family members are connected because of biological relationship, whereas, friends are together voluntarily. Hence, we are not obligated to make friends and cherish the friendship. However, friends are vital irrespective of our stage of life. There is time we don’t feel we need to treasure friendship. Consequently, we do not have friends to relate to at a critical stage of life.

As a matter of fact, the working adults are generally busy with career and pertinent responsibilities in an urbanised society. They don’t have much time for their elderly parents. At time, the elderly are lonely since they have to be alone. Certainly, the elderly can hope that their children would give them more time. But, the reality is disappointment due to the constraint facing their children.

Therefore, it is good to treasure friendship as an inevitable need of life. One day, when men and women have grown old and have to live alone, they can still have people whom they can relate to. Perhaps, one of the benefits of having the social media is that the people can communicate with one another in a time they cannot really come together.

My mom has passed on several years ago. She had never stayed alone because there were always family members staying with her under the same roof. Other children could also visit her from time to time. However, she still had to be home alone during the day time. The good thing was that she did not feel lonely because she constantly used telephone to communicate with her old friends and older relatives.

As friends are vital assets, it is imperative for us to treasure friendship for the sake of ourselves, our contemporaries and even for our family members who can’t spend enough time for their elderly. When we ourselves become old, it is a blessing there are still friends whom we can communicate with from time to time.

家庭成员相处是基于血缘关系，而朋友则是自愿的在一起。虽然我们没有义务结交朋友及珍惜友谊；但是无论处在人生任何阶段，朋友都非常重要。有时候我们因为没有珍惜友谊，结果处在人生的关键时期，我们便可能找不到任何朋友。

事实上，生活在城市化的社会，职业人士通常都忙于事业及相关的责任；以致没有太多时间陪伴年迈的父母。因此很多老人感觉孤独，又常常必须独处。虽然老年人可以希望自己的孩子能给他们更多的时间；由于孩子面临的限制，结果他们会面臨失望。

的确珍惜友谊是生活中不可忽略的事情。有一天，当男人或女人变老而又必须独自生活时，他们仍然可以拥有可以联系的人。也许，拥有社交媒体的一个好处就是人们无法在一起的时候，却仍然可以彼此沟通。

我的母亲已经过世好几年了。她从未独自一人生活，因为她是和一些家人住在同一屋檐下，她的其他孩子也可以不时去看望她。然而，白天她仍然必须独自在家，但是她不会感到孤独，因为她经常会用电话与她的老朋友和年长的亲戚交流。

由于朋友是至关重要的资产，所以为了自己、我们同时代的人、甚至是无法花太多时间给老人的家庭成员，我们必须趁早多珍惜友谊。当我们变老了，我们还有可以彼此联系的朋友。