who are your friends?

Who are your friends? Is  they are boys or girl?Since last thursday are the Friendship Days in colleges, i would like to write up about the friends issues. Before that, let we define first about the meaning of friends.  What actually meaning by friends itself?Friends are actually defined as a person that will share a same goal with us in term of behavior, opinion or how the way to act in a society. In other meaning, "Friendship, as understood here, is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy. As such, friendship is undoubtedly central to our lives, in part because the special concern we have for our friends must have a place within a broader set of concerns, including moral concerns, and in part because our friends can help shape who we are as persons. Given this centrality, important questions arise concerning the justification of friendship and, in this context, whether it is permissible to “trade up” when someone new comes along, as well as concerning the possibility of reconciling the demands of friendship with the demands of morality in cases in which the two seem to conflict." by  The Stanford Encyclupedoa of Philosophy.I also being interested  with a quotation which is " whenever A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift.A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship is a gift.A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace.And makes the world we live in a better and happier place. From the quotations above, it is really shows that friends plays a important part in each life. without friends, people will not get any happiness in life.In contrary, what happened to the friends that are fickle? What are you feelings about?Fickle friends is erratic behavior", "fickle weather", "mercurial twists of temperament", "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"- according to http://www.mnemonicdictionary.com. Then, according to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary,  the meaning of ambivalent is having or showing both good and bad feeling about something.  so, friends those who are fickle and ambivalent are better to avoid in order to not facing any unexpected thing happens. From the excerpt by Kirsten Weir, "Fickle Friends" it is actually give the audience views about the fickle or ambivalent friendship which is give a bad or negative effect towards the other friends.  For example, as stated in the excerpt, the research that was done blood pressure were typically higher when individuals encountered ambivalent friends than when they saw a supportive friends. Then, other research also suggest that ambivalent friends can lower resistance to stress. this is because the more ambivalent friends a person had, the higher his or her heart rate and blood pressure were. In conclusion, the excerpt shows the reader about which kind of friend are better to befriends. As stated by William Ellery, sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.