Count Your Age By Friends Not Years
‘A man is known by his friends’. This is an oft heard expression. But do we know that a man also lives longer because of his friends regardless of care fees annuities and quality of health care. A person who goes through life with no family or friends to speak of is a waste of life. There is no goal, no objective and no direction in this kind of a life. We start making friends the moment we touch down on Earth. As babies we have parents for friends and as we grow our need for friends changes and we pick them based what we need from them as we go on. Having friends means you have someone to talk to, confide in, have fun with and share our joy and sorrow. Friends are there when we celebrate an occasion making it special and making us feel good. Feeling good in actuality is a physical manifestation of a physiological activity. Friends are there to help us get through difficult situations. A support structure such as this helps maintain a stable physical and psychological balance thereby ensuring your life goes on normally and your body does not have to take on everything that life throws at you by itself.
Research indicates that years actually add on to a lifetime in people who have had a good share of stable and supportive relationships with friends and families. The relationships we go through not just touch us on an emotional level, but also affect physical well being. It is rather well known that extreme emotional stress often manifests itself in various ailments. So the connection here is quite obvious. Social interactions help keep certain physiological systems running and this therefore adds to the overall maintenance of the body helping it function the way it is supposed to for as long as it is meant to.
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