Characteristics Of A Bad Friend

Friends can have an important role in an individual’s life. They listen to one’s secrets and problems, and bring encouragement to one’s life. Friends help to aid in parts of one’s life, whether for a few hours, days, months or years. This introduces many different types of friends including classmates, co-workers, or anyone who is gained to help ease life in one way or another. Individuals look for different characteristics in a friend that makes them unique and best fits their preferences. Throughout all types of friends though, there are common characteristics. A few major characteristics of a good friend include being kind, trustworthy, and encouraging. A friend is an individual who one enjoys being around and knows relatively well. On …show more content…
Some characteristics include being arrogant or jealous. These adjectives contradict those of a good friend. An arrogant friend will only think of himself/herself. They will not support friends because they believe that they are more important. A jealous friend is also a bad friend. A jealous friend would show envy of his/her friend’s achievements and accomplishments. This then results in the jealous friend being unsupportive of the friend and only think of the friendship as some sort of contest. Bad friends are hard to be around and the friendships usually do not …show more content…
According to Oxford online dictionary, a friend, “is a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations” (Oxford Living Dictionaries). One type of friend is a convenience friend. A convenience friend is a person whom one will gather to and be fond of for a temporary time. This includes when an individual is in a class. Seeing an individual everyday will build a friendship for the lasting time of the class. The friendship may not be as deep or meaningful but rather to just pass the time. Trust will most likely not be built and the friendship probably will not have meaning outside of the class period. Another example of a convenience friend is someone who may use the friendship to get things. This includes an individual building trust one sided for his/her own personal gain. A convenient friend portrays characteristics of a bad friend like being jealous of what another has. An example of this is when an individual becomes friends with another individual just to gain a ride to an upcoming concert, get food at a restaurant, or even homework answers. Once receiving the originally hoped for product, the convenient friend will usually leave and move on to the next “friend”. Another type of friend is a fake friend. A fake friend may show the characteristics of a good friend on the outside, but actually portray the characteristics