The Grass-Root Friend: A Guide to Personal Success for Teens and Youth

By Abiotona Alu Sukubo

This book contains parental advise which addresses the trust issues facing our teens and youth's decision to chose a true friend as they grow in the path of success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Apr 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781925939040

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INTRODUCTION:

A friend is a person you know well and regard with affection and trust: but who is this person that you can really trust? Who can show true affection? Those people who really have regards for you from the bottom of his or her heart. The very person you know truly well? This has been an issue of the heart since the inception of hatred, betrayals, killings and other crimes against humanity and the divine will of God.

It is God’s will that man will love his neighbor as himself and see every other man as a true friend. As such, the best relationship a man can ever keep is that of a true friendship. A true friend is closer to a man in representation, works, sharing and other works of life than blood relationship such as father, mother, brother, sister and so on. Thus, for some men, their supposing true friend is always their spouse in order of preference and vice versa for the woman. For the child, his brothers and sisters are his true friends in preferential order because those are his closest or most intimate person in the family. Although the Father or the Mother could also be a true friend in the family, a man must be careful in chosing his true friend.

It is my discovery that when one gets out of the family, he tends to be more closer and intimate to his pair or play mates, with whom he can share certain things that he can never share with his immediate family members because he knows, he can trust, regard and show more affections to them. These mates actually mean so much to him, as much as he meant everything to them. Imagine a relationship that is not biologically linked but still stronger than a blood relationship. such is a true friend but don’t be deceived by the kind gesture and fair treatment you receive from many people. Still, you have a responsibility to find your true friend because nothing good comes so easy and trust is earned through trials and proofs.

It is therefore important to state that the true friend is one who is ready to do anything for you at no cost even unto death while rebuking you for your wrong deeds. Such friend can be found in the village, city or abroad. Although, he or she may not have given you anything or done anything for you or probably come to say good things about you to your face but he is always there for you, looking up to you, emulating and adoring you in prayers and mental wellbeing or emotionally. Let me also state here that as you grow in all aspects of life, you must constantly add new friends to or let go some old friends from your records. still there must be at least a friend you cannot do away with on a moral grounds, such is a grass-root friend. I want to conclude by saying that you can never run away from a true friend, even if you lived abroad or work in a foreign land, you will one day come back to him or her in the grass-root ‘death or alive’. Thus the true friend is the grass-root friend.

Chapter 1: Friendship And A friend

A friend is a person well known and regarded with affection and trust. This is someone who you really love naturally with all your heart not for negative reasons but for positive reasons. Of cause, there is a reason for loving another person which is a common factor in man’s nature. Reason has always been the justification for planning, actions, implementations and subsequent success to achieve our dreams and desires in life.Thus, there is a reason for loving but the question is ‘Is the reason natural or not’?

Here, I want you to believe that any reason for loving another

Reviews for The Grass-Root Friend

[Aamse · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The contents and ideas are very valuable and informative. The path to greatness as revealed in this book is indeed defined by our relationship with others. I now know how to address the trust issues in my relationship. Thanks