By Khadija Muhammad Yawale
No human being can be happy without a friend. The human heart is formed for love and cannot be happy without the opportunity of giving and receiving attraction unless you give it also. Love can only be obtained by giving love in return. If your friend does not love you; it is your fault.
However, we must not forget that there are many types of friends. Some fair-weather friends enter into friendship simply because of what they can get from other people. This category of friends would do anything for their friends for as long as the going is good. They are ready to call it quits when it turns.
There are thousands of friends who have helped their friends in diverse ways to ascend the economic, business, school, and educational ladder. Yet, other shameless pretenders lure other people to enter into friendship with them. But when at fault, they have some hidden agenda. Many people have got into various ignoble groups through the clever tricks of such friends. Indeed, many students have fallen victim to friends who get them initiated into cults.
So, many friends watch it! That innocent-looking and the seemingly gentle and harmless person may be a devil incarnate. Don’t rush into friendship; you better look carefully before you leap so that you will not regret it eternally.
Khadija Muhammad Yawale is of Kano Capital Girl’s Secondary School, Kano
