After finish reading Friendship for the first time

ps: This should be a blog post three weeks ago, I just find out today that  I kept it in my draft.......

According to Aristotle, “friendship” is not similar to the modern meaning; the meaning of friendship actually has a more widen meaning in his work. There are three kinds of friendship, one is the friendship based on the “useful”, once the function of one party disappeared, the friendship would dissolve. One is the friendship for pleasure, which the feelings play the role of deriver. The third one, which Aristotle is highly honored, is the friendship between the good people who are alike in their virtue and good in themselves. The third friendship is a complete one.

The discussion of what we seek in the friendship impressed me a lot. The difference between these three friendships is that people in the fulfilled one are mutual benefits and the love between them is without qualification and they love each other due to the shared virtues and who they are. And then, he discussed the difference between the goodwill and the friendship, and held the view that the distance would not dissolve the friendship without qualification (I think it refer to the complete friendship or the friendship he said is “fullest sense”.), but it would break the activity. I always ignore the most basic, however, the most essential things in a relationship: communicate frequently and accompany with each other. These are the characteristics in one friendship, whatever the species they are. People need to be loved and love in a relationship, and they are pursuing the pleasure and the happiness.