To be or not to be a friend?

Everybody needs somebody. I sometimes here people say they don't need anyone, I don't believe that to be true. Everyone needs someone. God made us to love one another and loving one another also means that we need each other. Now granted we don't need everyone, but we do need people in our lives. Sometimes the person or people you can rely on are family but sometimes that person may be a friend or a few friends. It is hard to find genuine friendships in life, as everyone who you think is a friend may not actually be a friend. There is a difference between friends, associates, and frienemies (I know that's not a real word) lol I do believe we were created to have friendships, but It is important to to know the difference between a real friend and people who portray themselves as friends. In some cases your family is your friends, they are the one's who are always there, the ones who you can call and depend on no matter whatever you are going through. However sometimes an outside person that you have grown to know, who has shown you loyalty and friendship and who has been more like family than your own family, they may be the one you turn to in your time of need. Many women are often envious of other women, jealous about their lives, their jobs, the way they dress, look or their relationships. I believe that if we as women spent more time building one another up, instead of tearing each other down, their would be more genuine friendships. I believe that we as women go through so much, and no one knows more about what a woman goes through than another woman. I feel we should be each other's greatest supporters, we should be that comfort, that positive force that keeps each other going. As women many of us look at each other in judgement, without even knowing each other. Many look at another woman and they say; "I don't like her", how can you not like someone you don't even know? What about that woman don't you like when you have not even had a conversation to get to know her? Another thing women do is make a judgement on another woman based on what someone else has told them. Get to know someone for yourself before you form an opinion about someone. It really is not fair to take someone else's word without first finding out for yourself if that person is of good character or not. How would you like to be judged without even being given a chance? Smile, because happiness begins with you, VSJ~ AKA She Uplifts, The Postal Pen~