Since the creation of the world, people have been ruled by two feelings, which, like sisters, are similar to each other. People called them "friendship" and "love". For the sake of these feelings, people are capable of much: depending on the characters of people, it can be a feat accomplished for the sake of saving a friend, or even meanness committed by another person in the same situation, only not in the name of friendship, but already for the sake of saving oneself. Oddly enough, at the moment of betrayal, they are also sure that they have the right to the title of friend and, in fact, do not cause any damage at all.
True friendship, like true love, is a rarity. This is a gift from heaven, which is given once in a lifetime and only to select people. Almost everyone wants to meet at least once in their life a person who, in their opinion, can become a real friend for them, a support in difficult times, a caring nanny, in moments of illness and despair. Isn't it great to speak without words in a language that only two people understand? Laugh at things that only they understand? Everyone dreams of such a friendship, spending their whole lives in anticipation of just such a true friendship. Often, ordinary friendships are mistaken for friendship, even if it is not. Further, there are two scenarios for development: either these relations will get stronger and turn into real friendship, or one of the parties will turn such relations into friendship of convenience.
Of course, there are situations in which friendship of design is beneficial to both parties. In this case, everyone clearly knows their benefits. For example, take this case: a young lady who has a small child, whom she brings up alone, without a husband, is friends with an elderly and also lonely lady. From the outside, such a friendship is not clear to anyone, but they understand what their friendship is based on. Communicating with a woman younger than her years, the lady again becomes a young soul, and a young woman can leave the child with this lady if she suddenly needs to be absent. It may seem that this is a disinterested friendship, but in fact, for each participant there is some benefit, which acts as a connection: a young mother can rely on a well-known person and get a couple of free hours, and a lady of venerable age again feels needed.
Here is another situation: two girls from the first grade are friends. For those around them, friendship is common, there is nothing strange or suspicious. Both of them were excellent pupils in elementary school, both had complete families and everything was equally good. But suddenly trouble happens in the family of one of the girls - her father dies. Everything in her life changed overnight, the world collapsed, she no longer has pocket money - her mother was left alone, a mortgage hanging over them like a sword of Damocles. So that she has at least a little of her own savings, the girl decides to go for a trick and begins to conceal money from her joint purchases from her friend. First for a penny, and then quite large sums are at her complete disposal, and she is silent about it, completely not considering herself to be guilty. In this situation, the benefit is one-sided, so it seems much more deplorable - in fact, the robbed girl does not receive any equivalent compensation.
The truly scary thing is that the calculation has now reached alarming volumes. Marriages, friendship, love - only he rules in everything, and most often one-sided. Thousands, millions of people may not even suspect that they are only being used. Not to say that the calculation is alien to human nature, but it must be reasonable so that a person remains a human, and not a biorobot with a clear, but soulless plan for the work of his brain.
