Friendship vs Love

Difference between friendship and love

The age old debate that is there difference between friendship and love goes on. But the fact remains that is there is any difference between friendship and love and if there is one what is it? Well one can simply say that there is thin line between friendship and love.

In any relationship whether it is of love or friendship, it’s quite natural for the people to be intrigued. One would be sorry to say that exact, precise and succinct answers to such questions are not possible. As these two are complementary to each other and one can readily opine that friendship in true terms is purely, subset of emotion love.

How friendship is different from love?
One of the most common questions that pop up in anybody’s mind is that, how exactly can one define friendship? How can we term that a person we hang out with is, our true friend? Is he/she is my true friend? What is the best possible way in rendering and defining the friendship? The answers to these common questions could be sought too, but in most of the cases, they are case specific.

In friendship one must be clear in mind that, this relationship is not the state of mind. It’s purely act. The quality of friendship may vary from one person to the other. One may not be good with it, or could be bad too. It may not even reflect the true you. Some times it is unbalanced too among two people. But the most common factors through which we judge our friendship is that, we feel, care and are ready to help them at time of need and distress. He/ she are the person with whom we share most of our time and love to hang out. He or she is the person with whom we share most of our thoughts, secrets and wild dream’s which we dare not to do even with our parents or siblings.

How love is different from friendship?

One of the most common facet’s of love is that the intimacy that the two individuals share is deeper, greater and much different from that of friendship. One cannot avoid or overlook the physical element of love. The love in friendship has defined boundaries and there is no place for physical intimacy, irrespective of the depth your relationship.

In a love the attachment grows to that extent, that if one of the individuals is pained then the other also feels the hurt and ache. In today’s context one can easily say that both the relationships be it love or friendship may last for life time. But the fact remains that the amount of time that is spent in love is more as compared to that in friendship.

The thing is that friendship and love usually are not the same stuff’s. Life revolves around friendship. A friendship is so deep encrusted that most of the stuffs are naturally understood by our friends.