“Friendship without trust will sink.” – Emmanuel Sasu.
Building successful friendship is fundamental to achieving success in every area of our lives. We would start by first looking at some signs of unsuccessful friendship.
Signs Of Unsuccessful Friendship
In fact, many people generally feel some level of envy when a friend or loved one experiences success. But these feelings usually pass before long. Often they’re outweighed by an individual’s support or happiness for their friend, even if they still have a lingering desire for what their friend has. Most unsuccessful friends are also known as Jealous friends.
The following are some signs of unsuccessful or jealous friends;
1. They greet your good news with negativity.
When something good happens, you want to tell your closest friends about it. But instead of congratulating or supporting you, an envious friend might point out the possible downsides or have only negative things to say.
Run away from these kind of friends because they are unsuccessful friends. At times, the will smile but their body language speaks ill about the good news
2. They frequently try to outdo or one-up you.
If you share something positive from your life, a friend dealing with jealousy might respond by sharing something similar, only bigger or better. Immediately you tell them about your Success, they immediately share a bigger testimony to conquer that of yours. And even some share a Fake Testimony to belittle your testimony of Success
3. They make you feel bad about yourself.
The third point is, the Jealous or unsuccessful friends always try to make you feel not vital. Run away from any friend who always make you look as if you were created for Nothing.
"A friend who make you feel you are not important can cause you to even commit suicide” – Emmanuel Sasu.
4. They don’t offer support.
Unsuccessful friends always feel jealous of what you’ve achieved won’t offer much support. They may even go so far as to say hurtful things, whether they intend them to hurt you or not. So these kinds of friends will do anything to discourage you from pursuing your goals further.
Requirements For Successful Friendship
1.Honesty
Honesty is a requirement for successful friendship. Honesty is a requirement for a strong and successful friendship because, at the end of the day, people usually will be more hurt when the truth is concealed than by the truth itself, whatever it may be. Even though being honest may mean having more difficult conversations with your friend, it will make for a stronger and better friendship.
“Before you qualify one as a successful friend. Test the honesty aspect of your friend.” – Emmanuel Sasu
2. Compassion
Having compassion and empathy is a requirement for a healthy friendship because it’s important to have friends that you can count on to be there for you.
3. Trust
Being able to have trust and confidence in your friend is one of the most important requirements of a strong relationship because true friendship means you are able to count on one another. Friendship without trust will sink.
Kind regards,
EMMANUEL SASU,
PASTOR | SPEAKER | MENTOR,
VICTORY BIBLE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL.
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