True friends exist?
What are the qualities of a true friend? This question is very complicated because every person has his/her own requirements to friends. The usual qualities that people want their true friend to have are devotion, tenderness and respect.
From ancient times a true friend was a person who was always able to help his/her friend and to be a real support and care. But modern life makes people consider the notions of "friendship" and "true friend" more attentively. The modern world is filled with sorrows and troubles and almost every person feels sorry. There are a lot of new professions that are able to solve all problems. Specially trained experts will listen to you and help to find the way out. These experts are called psychologists. This profession has become so popular because modern society doesn't feel the need in friends.
So, even more important trait of a true friend in modern world is that he/she may be happy for their friends.
But true friends are very rare and it is very hard to find a true friend in modern society. You may be friends with a person for a long time and only when some time passes you understand that he/she wasn't the true friend. You spend a lot of time together, go shopping together, have common friends, spend hours discussing the latest gossips about your friend's private life but in the end this "true" friend results to be a liar. Because this person starts to discuss your secrets with strangers and the details of your private life become known to everybody. And the greatest disappointment is a disappointment in your true friend, when you understand that your friend betrayed you and was lying to you.
There are no many true friends. As a rule a person has only one true friend who is always able to help and to give you a useful piece of advice. A person may say that he/she has a lot of friends but only one of them is true, who will never offend, never betray, will be always sincere and whom you could always trust in any situations.
So, it is up to you to decide either to have a true friend or to use the service of psychologists and other experts. But you will never receive the same sensations as from the talk with a friend.