Making True Friend !

Despite this high-tech world we live in, a true friend is still a gift in your life. You're meeting new people all the time but most of them won't turn into good friends. It's important to reflect on what true friendship means to you and form a definition in your mind so you know if someone you meet might become a close friend.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1

Take the time to think about what a true friend means to you. It's not as obvious as you may think. You may need someone who's artistic and creative while someone else needs a person who loves to be active.

Step2

Pay attention to your comfort level when you're with a person. A true friend makes you feel at ease. Someone who bombards you with negative comments, criticizes rather than encourages and pushes you to do things you don't want to do will never be a true friend.

Step3

Identify your differences of opinion. Arguments make a healthy friendship because they force you to think differently about things. But we all have our threshold. If someone has nasty things to say about your in-laws just because of their ethnic background, you're better off looking for friendship somewhere else.

Step4

Notice if the person shows concern for your well-being. That means they don't give you a dissertation on their life before you get a chance to say anything else. When you start talking about your problems, see if you have their full attention. True friends don't let their eyes wander or glaze over when it's not their turn to gripe!

Step5

Be honest about whether someone can ever be a good friend. A true friend is someone who can accompany you on the journey to personal growth. Someone who just agrees with everything you say or makes you feel inadequate isn't going to help you reach your potential.

find someone who listens to you when u speak, someone who corrects you when you're wrong (even if they know you will get upset/offended), someone who reminds u constantly of your self worth and value, someone who tells u how lucky they are to have you as a friend, someone who doesnt ask much of u and someone who shows u that they love you. if you just pay close attention to the people around you, it wont be difficult to pick the good ones from the bad/pretenders.

Iran opposes any Saudi unilateral oil output hike

Tehran, June 18: Iran said on Tuesday it would be opposed to any move by OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia to raise its oil output without a consensus from fellow members of the oil cartel.

"If Saudi Arabia takes a measure to unilaterally increase (oil) output, it is a wrong move," Mohammad Ali Khatibi, Iran's new representative to OPEC, was quoted as saying by the state television website.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced on Sunday that Saudi Arabia had told him it would increase its oil output by a further 200,000 barrels a day in July, although it was not clear if Khatibi was reacting to these comments.

Saudi Arabia is also organising talks among major oil producers and consumers in the Red Sea city of Jeddah next week to discuss the current sky-rocketing prices.

Iran is OPEC's number two producer, behind the Saudis, and has consistently argued that the high oil price has nothing to do with market fundamentals and OPEC's output should not be increased.

"Any increase in production should be approved in the meeting of the organisation's ministers," Khatibi stressed.

Iran's OPEC representative also said there was no shortage in the oil market: "Oil producers are all agreed that the oil market is saturated," he said.

"Evidence shows that consumers will discuss the increase of oil production more than other issues in this (Jeddah) meeting. This is while the producers believe that there is no shortage in the market," he said.

The National Iranian Oil Company's director for international affairs, Hojatollah Ghanimifar, said any boost to output would have little impact on world prices.

"In the current situation even an increase of 500,000 barrels of oil will not make any change in oil prices," Ghanimifar was quoted as saying by the state television website.

Oil futures reached record highs of almost USD 140 a barrel on Monday.

In Asian trade on Tuesday, the main New York futures contract, light sweet crude for July delivery, dropped 15 cents to USD 134.46 per barrel after striking an intraday record of USD 139.89 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the current high price of oil was artificial and the market was well supplied. "The rise in consumption is lower than the rise in production," Ahmadinejad told a meeting in the central city of Isfahan of OPEC's fund for international development.

"Certain hands, for political and economic ends, are controlling the price in an artificial manner," he said.