Classification and Division Essay (Types of Friends)
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TYPES OF FRIENDS
Cultivating Meaningful Friendships
Friendships significantly impact one's happiness, image, mental health, well-being, and
direction in life. Meaningful friendships bring with them company, joy, comfort and prevent
loneliness. Therefore, with the limited length of life, someone needs to fill the few slots of
intense friendships available with certain types of friends. The categories of friends someone
needs to cultivate meaningful friendships include the inspirational friend, the voice-of-reason
friend, the confidant friend, the entertainer friend, the cheerleader, and a best friend. Making
inner circle friends is vital for someone to level up in all aspects of life, and each type of friend
serves a unique purpose in someone's life.
An inspirational friend is usually a more senior person with great experience in life and
has a unique perspective that someone looks up to and keeps as a close friend and a source of
inspiration. Due to maturity, such a friend appears to have their life in order despite their
imperfections and act as a reference point to their friends. Someone can draw inspiration from
such a friend through their immense wisdom, values, determination, and their positive outlook on
life. Cultivating such a friendship is meaningful because an inspirational friend is a role model
who inspires someone to do better through their enthusiasm, the trust they have in someone's
capabilities, and is the one who feeds someone's creative soul. To level up and be happy,
someone needs a friend who motivates and inspires them to be better in all aspects of life and
realize that they have the potential within them to bring about the change they want.
Another category of friend someone needs in intense friendships is the voice-of-reason
type of friend. This friend is the one someone goes to when at crossroads to gain perspective and
a second opinion to make viable choices. In essence, this is the kind of friend that prevents
someone from making irrational decisions since they use logic, realism, and knowledge to