Social Chemistry and Friendship

Social Chemistry and Friendship

Friendship is a subject viewed from many perspectives. Obviously, most people in this world have friends, and thus who do not, suffer the tragedy terribly more often than not. Then again, friendship, is not always linked to peers, sometimes people name as their best friends their parents or their siblings.

Further, one common feature among friends is understanding. Friends tend to understand us and also to accept us as we are, a commodity quite rare in the present world. Interestingly enough, psychologists would not leave a subject such as friendship undiscussed and especially social, psychologists have a lot to say about friendship. For example, social psychologists say that friendships are more often formed between people who live in proximity to one another, as well as who share similarities.

Do you want to be my friend? Image: Elena

Friends often also offer social support. Social support need not always be tangible; it could be just the feeling that someone is there. In fact, some social psychologists maintain that real best friends can spend years without talking to each other and still remain friends. Is it true? There as many answers as there are opinions.

Chemistry is another ball game altogether. Chemistry most often refers to the mutual feelings between relational or sexual partners. In the sense of relationships, it is often said that for a couple to stay strong throughout the years, they must be best friends before everything and anything. After all, even the most beautiful girl or handsome young man, have their looks fade with time in the majority of cases, so there has to be something more to keep the couple together, to keep the flame alive, to relentlessly rekindle the romance.

Some people say love is friendship on fire. Others say that you cannot have love, or more precisely a romantic relationship, without friendship. Yet, other, skeptic ones at that, fail to believe in either love or friendship. A sad perspective and an even sadder world if you ask us, but then again…