Is friendship really that vunerable?

Apparently, it does..

Why? In my opinion, personal gains and human's selfish nature are the the problems of such issue.

Personal gains, people that got together due to mutual benefits, using the word " friend" to have access conveniently to what they want to have. This "friends" are usually short-term, and easily broken due to short quarrels, clashes of differing ideas or even no longer of use to them. I am not being skeptical or negative but it is just that I came across too many abusing the word "friend" for undesirable personal benefits, such as digging out gossips, for a moment of cure from loneliness and boredom, social experiments and even just to make stepping stone for making themselves look great.

It may true that is how it work in the harsh real world where "friendships" comes from the value each will get from them. "Friends" that are so close to each other can be enemy the next moment when one of the party cannot endure a joke/trick made by the other, and even go out to the extend of a physical fight and a lot of sarcastic remarks to the other party. I am kinda disappointed with some of them. Humans are not perfect, I sometimes also did some of the mistakes i mentioned. Only realizing what I did, years later, are just foolish acts when I look at people younger than me doing the same thing.

I don't expect that all friendship are only consist of selfishness, there are people that do come together due to common hobbies or even sharing the same volunteerism attitude towards the less fortunate that ask for nothing in return. Frequently, there are disagreements. Settle it peacefully, rationally without hurting the friendship will definitely makes it stronger, just like how boy-girls relationship works. However, this is always the biggest and hardest step to make when one have to put down their pride and listen what the others has to say, which contradicts their owns' perceptive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybJCVtCunI&feature=related

How I wish friends can be just as pure as this song and people do make an effort of treasuring the comradeship and companionship of the friends that they had. I do believe that there are friends that do not really care who you are or what's your background, but just wanted to walk their life with you, creating wonderful, colourful memories. For those out there that may had read this, school and army( for singaporean) will be the best place to find your true friends, your lifetime relationship who you share joy, woes with