30th December 2010
It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Merlene Dietrich
We live in a society which is becoming very competitive day by day. On one side opportunities are growing and on the other side the risk and uncertainties are also growing. We need to muster all our resources even to turn out ordinary things in life. Have you heard of the Five M's – Money, Material, Method, Machinery and Men? These are the five basic resources which we should learn how to use. Of all these resources, the human resource is the most important and critical of all the other resources. We have to work with people to reach our goals and aspirations in life.
Friends play a very important role in our life. When it comes to friendship, it is not the number of friends that we have, but the intensity of friendship that is very important. What decides the intensity of friendship is how much we are willing to sacrifice for each other.
In an organization, there is a process to rate vendors. We can also evaluate the quality of our friends by some of the following parameters:
- Honesty: is our friendship honest and true?
- Is our friendship attentive and adaptive?: If this parameter is lacking, the friendship will break.
- Is our friendship adaptive of our goals and aspirations?
- What is the quality of trust level?
- Do we know the expectation of each other? Otherwise, it will be only one sided.
- Will the friendship last during bad days?
- Is the friendship mutual or one sided?
You can add to the above list. Like we monitor any other resource, we should also measure and maintain our friendship. Over this weekend, list all the friends that you have and apply the above parameters and see how many of them will qualify to be your true friends?
N C Sridharan
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