By Harun Jamallullail
Does friendship have a physical or psychological value?
Although there are various answers to this question none seems to be correct! Psychologists and scientists have turned to the asylum where this question is asked! This always seems to be a Nobel Prize question! Nobody knows why. The answer is always there, but which one is the right one? Not many seem to know and what can be told is that friendship has both values. How? Why? Proof please!
There are various elements I may use to answer these questions but I would like to use the element of logic.
Logically, no one can ever see friendship! Unless if they’re dead or something. Some say to see friendship is by looking at Facebook and find the common friends (Amigos en comun). Ironically, you can have amigos en comun but not knowing the person you’re friend with. Perhaps, friendship is abstract; therefore it’s just an illusion, it has no value at all. Are you really sure? If so, why do you feel hurt when a friend of yours turns his or her back on you? None of the answers are somehow valid or reliable.
How does Harry Potter save the day when he is just a teenage boy with a normal wand and still unknowledgeable compared to Lord Voldemort where Lord Voldemort is stronger, older, more experienced? Ironically, in the movie, we can see that Lord Voldemort is finally dead although his name Voldemort (Vol d’ mort) stands for escape from death/immortal in French. We see that his trust and bond in friendship somehow gives him a supernatural power to defeat Lord Voldemort! This somehow shows that the power of friendship could have a physical value.
If you see Digimon Adventure, you would be amazed that the Chosen Children with their digimons (Digital Monsters) are able to defeat such enemies who are even stronger and bigger than themselves. Those children and their digimons are able to defeat their enemies without doing much. They keep using the same attack, but the bond of friendship within the children and their monsters have given a certain psychological boost that managed to eliminate such enemy and caused them to run $$ for their lives! What do they do? The children just stand there screaming and crying and the next episode, their monsters are able to defeat their intimidating enemy! This may contradict the first statement, but it shows that friendship has a psychological value.
The answer is both. Friendship somehow provides an extremely strong and profound power towards certain individuals in a way that no human eyes can see. Not even on the telescope or microscope! To understand the power of friendship, you would have to imagine this ‘friendship’ as an engine of a vehicle. Let’s say that the fuel enters the engine, the carburettor converts the fuel into energy for the engine to keep on moving. As long as the fuel is in the engine, the vehicle will keep on moving. If we look into the above idea, we can see that the value of friendship is firstly psychological which fills the human mind or soul, therefore, fuelling it with motivation and spirit and soon converts into a physical power, when it gives us power to accomplish something. Not many think that this could become possible.
In a nutshell, friendship has both values and they both work together. So, there is no such thing as friendship only holds one value. It may be during a certain time, but most of the time, they work together and provide an adrenaline boost to accomplish our goal. You will feel extremely energised when you are motivated to do something for someone due to the trust and friendship towards a certain person. Therefore, friendship is not an illusion but a non-drug adrenaline shot. It maybe abstract, but when the power of friendship runs in your veins, you will feel that you’re on top of the world. The only thing you need is to strengthen the bond and believe in the power. You will soon feel it whether you notice it or not.***