The beauty of female friendships!

Relationships are important, and not just the romantic types but real and genuine friendships.

It's really sad that nowadays, most relationships/friendships have been reduced to just "connections" and "networks" instead of mutual love and care for the each other. I am not saying these are bad necessarily, but I think as a people, we can do much better. Today I want to talk about one relationship that is slowly losing it's essence in our society; Female Friendships.

Growing up as young girls, we've been groomed directly or otherwise, that being in a romantic relationship is all that there is to life. I mean look at the animations we watched; sleeping beauty, Cinderella, snow white and the rest. They all have one thing in common: be naturally pretty and a prince charming will come and save and you'll live happily ever after. They all focused on romantic relationships and taught us nothing on how to thrive in a healthy female friendship.

I believe friendship in any shape or form requires effort. Social media and the generation we live in really makes everything seem easy to come by. However, female friendships as with other worthwhile relationships require hard work from both parties. And another tragedy we have to deal with as Gen-Zers is the fact that we think everything is disposable. While it's true that not all of our friends will be with us for every season of our lives, we shouldn't assume that with no effort on our parts we'll have a beautiful relationship.

Female friendships doesn't have to be all roses and happiness all the time. But the ability to care, love and be there for each other through the hard times is all that matters. To hold each other up in prayer, to motivate, to connect them to opportunities that will improve their lives. And maybe the most important of all, is to make room for errors and mistakes. To make allowance for you all to grow through life and be able to forgive and let go when they hurt you. And trust me when I say quantity really doesn't matter here. It's really the value and quality each person places on the relationship and it's future.

In the upcoming posts, we will talk about some of the myths surrounding female friendships, how to maintain our relationships and how we can better support our friends in all the ways that matter.

In what ways have you been there for your friends and how did it improve your relationships? Please leave your answers in the comment box below and share with your friends.