Relationship or Friend? Who are more important at different phases of life...

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(Below stated article is based on ideal conditions and not specific to particular person)


Friendship and relationship are two different things with their own time period. Also we can say that Relationship is the 2nd step of friendship.

1)    TEENAGE TIME ( AGE:- 15-20 YEARS)

In teenage period, it is more important to build a strong friendship rather than focusing on boyfriend/girlfriend.
Why???

At this period of our life, we start to have some sense for making up a strong friendship and a group to enjoy.
Now if we directly jump to relationship instead of concentrating on friends, the flaws that we may face are:-

·         To build and maintain a good relationship, it requires some dedication of time and as teenage period is the core time of studies (10th & 12th) our free time totally goes in maintaining it and can’t dedicate more time towards friendship. From this we can say that we became good in maintaining relationship but we are unaware of how to make a friendship work.
·         Also we don’t know about our future i.e. in which fields our partner is going to go or which country or state he/she will get settled? We are unaware of such things and so issues like distance relationship can arise.
·         Overall it can be said that teenage is an early stage for going into a relationship but an important period for making an innocent friendship as these friends are going to play an important role in latter part of our life.


2)    BACHELOR LIFE( UG/PG) ( AGE:- 21-25 YEARS)

Here we have gained some maturity and very well know how to make and maintain new friends. So now we can go on with a relationship and friendship parallelly  if we want to. We know the value of having a friend. So even if you enter into a relationship, you will always make sure in maintaining proper friendship also.
Yes there can be exceptions if a person is not matured enough to maintain a friendship and relationship together. In such cases, problems may be created in either one of them.


3)    PROFESSIONAL/MARRIED LIFE ( AGE:- 26-55/60 YEARS)

Here we have entered our professional period with everyone busy in starting and maintaining their careers.  So all our (school/college) friends cannot meet on regular basis. Thus importance of friendship in this phase in very less.
But we all want someone in our life with whom we can share and talk regularly and so it becomes necessary to have a partner who can support you in every possible way. So this clearly states relationship prioritizing itself from friendship.

After getting married, we all have a family who is dependent on us and so we are busy earning more and more giving our time to family.
This is the phase where we meet our friends only on holidays or vacation to get freshened up from our daily routine.

Friendship’s importance gets degrade passing through each phase of life. But let’s see what the final phase of life states.


4)    RETIREMENT LIFE (AGE:- 55/60 YEAR ONWARDS)

This is the final phase of life where again friendship take its lead back.
The retirement life is full of boredom as there is nothing to do; there is no responsibility on our shoulders. Our partner may be dead. So again friends become important as we are free and need some friends of same age. And if we had maintained a good friendship at our teenage and bachelor life, then those friends may be helpful at this phase of life.

  • When we learn anything, the most important thing is to clear up our basics. In the same way, teenage phase is the basic phase for learning to maintain friendship as Friends are required in each and every phase of life excluding its importance.
  • Also search for the partner who understands you as well as your family. So don’t just run into a relationship as it is the only thing that can change your life in a good or even in a bad way.


   



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