{"id":456,"date":"2017-06-22T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=456"},"modified":"2017-07-05T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:12:17","slug":"friends-are-fabulous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/friends-are-fabulous\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends are Fabulous"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 30th<\/sup> of June is International Day of Friendship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminding you nice and early in case you need to make a plan to make a plan to get together and have a lunch date or something, or even just to remind yourself to call somebody.<\/p>\n

Friends are good for a person\u2019s heart and soul. Literally! \u00a0But friendship is very much a two-way thing.<\/p>\n

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One has to give as much as one gets \u2013 and I don\u2019t mean \u201cstuff\u201d here either. I\u2019m talking about time spent together, laughing, sharing experiences, chatting and more importantly, listening to the other person. Really listening to hear \u2013 and not listening to talk when they\u2019ve finished speaking. Often friends just need to talk to somebody that they know really cares about them \u2013 they don\u2019t want to hear how the same thing happened to you.<\/p>\n

If a friend tells you a juicy secret, don\u2019t go blab it out to the world in general afterwards. That\u2019s not what real friends do.<\/p>\n

Research has shown that people who have lots of friends are much more likely to survive a major illness than somebody who has no friends. This is because the loving support (both physically and mentally) of friends helps a person get better<\/p>\n

Companionship is also known to reduce stress. People, who are married to a person that they both love and are friends with, are more likely to stay married. (Yes \u2013 it\u2019s very possible to love somebody and not like them very much!)<\/p>\n

In your life time, you\u2019ll probably make around 396 friends, but according to research, only 1 in 12 friendships last and of those, only about 4 will be really close friends.<\/p>\n

These days, with s\"\"<\/a>ocial media \u2013 it\u2019s easy to think you have loads of friends, but this is not always the case. Next time you meet up with your friends, put your cell phones away and talk properly to each other, instead of chatting via text messages.<\/p>\n

Amazingly enough, scientists have also discovered that there are animals \u2013 like dolphins, bats, chimps, baboons, elephants, horses and\u2026 wait for it\u2026 hyenas that have been known to form friendships for life with individuals that are not the same species. (I was quite surprised to see that they did not mention dogs and cats \u2013 specially seeing as how they have bonds with their humans<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Remember people\u2026 in order to have a friend, you have to be a friend!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 30th of June is International Day of Friendship. I\u2019m reminding you nice and early in case you need to make a plan to make a plan to get together and have a lunch date or something, or even just to remind yourself to call somebody. Friends are good for a person\u2019s heart and soul. … Continue reading “Friends are Fabulous”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[29,60,21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}