TRUE FRIENDSHIP: A MIRAGE?

                             The most famous quote about friendship says “a friend in need is a friend indeed”. Here, the doing word is ‘need’, the word that defines a true friendship. Therefore, my question is, is there anything called a real friendship? Are all friendships in relation to the “need” that if anyone is totally useless, at present or in the future, will she/he be considered a friend? If yes, then why are there no rich as friends for the poor? If no, then is the term FRIENDSHIP a mirage, an ideal which exists only in imagination or metaphysical?

                           The rich join hands with only the rich and influential, the middle class with the middle class and the like. A close gaze at all the friendships one can find a give and take policy that binds it. The more the satisfaction of mutual “need”, the stronger the friendship is. It simply means that any relation is valuable; any friendship is valuable, only when there is any USE. The rich never join their poor relatives or neighbors because they are of no USE.

                        There are people who claim to be interested in making friends and claim it to be their weakness in life. They do all thousands of things to get the trust of others and make maximum number of friendships and relations within a short span of time wherever they go. A deep introspection is asked from you to check how many of them have been sincere?

                           Are all friendships curse in disguise? Is it just an adjustment done in a society or community for a smooth living? Is it just a search for people who are of one’s USE for one’s NEEDS?

  Everyone has an ideal friendship in mind and searches for a true friend. Is it just a mirage?