Friend­ship, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker.

From Wikipedia:

The term sym­bio­sis (from the Greek: σÏ?Î? syn “with”; and Î?Î?ωσÎ?Ï‚ bio­sis “liv­ing”) com­monly describes close and often long-term inter­ac­tions between dif­fer­ent bio­log­i­cal species. The term was first used in 1879 by the Ger­man mycol­o­gist, Hein­rich Anton de Bary, who defined it as: “the liv­ing together of unlike organ­isms”.
The def­i­n­i­tion of sym­bio­sis is in flux and the term has been applied to a wide range of bio­log­i­cal inter­ac­tions. The sym­bi­otic rela­tion­ship may be cat­e­go­rized as being mutu­al­is­tic, par­a­sitic, or com­men­sal in nature. Oth­ers define it more nar­rowly, as only those rela­tion­ships from which both organ­isms ben­e­fit, in which case it would be syn­ony­mous with mutualism.

Romans 15:1–2: We, though, who are strong ought to bear the weak­nesses of those not strong, and not to be pleas­ing our­selves. 2 Let each of us please [his] neigh­bor in what is good for [his] upbuild­ing.

Friend­ship. Friend­ship seems to be an endan­gered virtue. It is inter­est­ing that in a time and age when mil­lions of peo­ple con­nect online through social net­work­ing sites and are freely using the term ‘friend’ more and more peo­ple are lack­ing true friend­ships. It seems many nowa­days hide behind masks, either for fear of rejec­tion or by inten­tion­ally play­ing roles to attract atten­tion, often moti­vated by deep rooted lone­li­ness. I count myself for­tu­nate to have a few good friends these days. I barely com­mu­ni­cate with them online but rather face to face or at least over the phone. I feel good know­ing that they know me through mutual expe­ri­ences and per­sonal inter­ac­tion rather than through word of mouth as would be the case with pure online rela­tion­ships. I am happy that I can help and upbuild my friends should they go through tough times; I enjoy hav­ing deep and mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tions and see­ing them encour­aged top