Friendship Vs Dating: What’s Better?


Being friends or getting into a relationship, it all starts with being strangers to each other, but personally what I feel is friendship is better than relationship as it doesn't make you feel like you are dependent on someone for making decisions and also in spite of that you and your friends are there for you need them, but instead in a relationship it feels like signing a commitment agreement and your actions are always according to each other that's decisions you make in a relationship are mutual.

Friendship and relationship have their own boundaries between two individuals be it of opposite or same genders like unlike friendships, relationships require intimacy. People start friendships at a very young age that is when we go to school meet new people, become friends with them and relationships start later when we gets our senses according to our adulthood and as compared to relationships, friendships are less judgemental towards what you do or say and that opens you up more in front of a friend when you feel like you want to take out what you feel inside, talk about something you wanted to admit or confess. Well that's also possible in relationship, if the person on the other side understands you, knows what makes you feel good or bad or what you behave like for long period of time, but that's only possible when you are friends with someone, as when we you have someone with you and you both are free to do and say what they want to that's when you come to know what a person in real is.

It's not completely false that the reality of a person comes out of their close or best friends who have given them freedom to express who they actually are. The best thing about friendship is you rarely lose it, also it may turn into a relationship with stronger and better foundation. But even then as the strongest friendship has converted into a relationship, it doesn't feel same anymore it has become a relationship so it will act like a relationship, your decisions aren't independent anymore, like a new journey has started. Though this is why friendships have very less chances to be ended but unlike relationships which can be long term tend to end. And after that it's not easy or we can say nearly impossible to stay friends with someone who you were dating and it gets even harder when you know that the person you loved is with someone else. 

Two very different things friendships and relationships with importance of their own with the need of time in an individuals life. Though everyone has to accept that even if you choose friendships over relationships, somehow and sometime we have to step in a relationship. Sounds really diplomatic and ironic simultaneously, right?

At the end I just to stay that, as I am still not able to choose between one, I would suggest that for both be it in a relationship or friendship understand each other, have space for each other, stay loyal to each other accordingly in terms of things to be followed in relationships and friendships. It all depends on us whether we can someone like friendship over relationships or vice versa. And that;s how people have different opinions on this agenda.  




Thanks for reading.

Comments