What good is a friend, if you love them not? A friend is one you practice upon–one with whom you practice patience, kindness, compassion, and non-judgment. You would wish them to display the same towards you, but that is not always the case. And that, my friend, is the value of a friend. When they display their humanness and at times are not as loving to you as you would wish, it is those times that remind you that your friend exists not to please you and make you feel good. Your friend exists to mirror your Self … To give back to you by giving you opportunities to love them for themselves and in spite of themselves.
With this definition in mind, is not the whole world a potential friend? Make friends with all you see, for all you see are merely mirrors of the greater Self, all experiencing themselves in human form. So when others do something that is utterly human, you can say to them, “It is all right, my friend. I know Who you are, and I love you all the more for it.”