Don't Force Your Beliefs on Others.

## Hello, everyone. I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Maintaining friendship can be really difficult sometimes, especially for adults when trying times come knocking and require all of your attention, and then there is a friend out there who is mad at you for not checking up on them or reaching out. Friendship requires a lot of understanding; when you are friends with someone who lacks the type of understanding needed to maintain a friendship, then maintaining the said friendship becomes really difficult and even stressful.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/two-young-boys-playing-on-the-beach-in-black-and-white-qJ_ZiZBnJ6w) We are all humans, but we see things differently; we have different perspectives and different beliefs. We have friends who we need constant communication with to keep the friendship alive; not talking to them for a day or two makes it look like the friendship is about to crash. And then there are friends/people who, even if we go years without talking, the day we talk, it feels like we have been in communication since, and the whole vibe is there. Maintaining friendship totally depends on the type of person we are dealing with. Is it somebody that requires constant communication? Is it somebody that understands that we cannot always have constant communication? Understanding is the bedrock of every friendship; the lack of understanding from one party in a friendship or relationship will be the end of the friendship or relationship, as one person's understanding is not enough to see the friendship through. Friendship is a 50-50 thing; when only one person puts in the effort and the understanding, it can be draining, but when both parties put in the effort and try to understand each other, it comes with the best feelings. Maintaining any friendship requires that both parties involved have a mutual understanding of what friendship entails and also know that there are boundaries not to cross or drag the to. We can be friends and not on the same page; we can be friends and have different beliefs, and one of the boundaries not to cross is thinking you are better than the other because of your beliefs or trying to make sure you are all on the same page. We are all humans, and we can never think alike; forcing a friend to think like you makes the friendship toxic. Friendship is freedom; friendship is being around a friend and being entitled to your opinions, beliefs and perspectives, not one where you are not free around a friend because they have a different belief from yours and for that reason you are not free to talk about your beliefs.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/man-in-black-jacket-smiling-dAklQTLN3P0) Yes, like I said before, we are all humans, and we have different perspectives on things and have different beliefs, but the mistake many people make that causes differences to bring an end to a beautiful friendship is trying to force the other person to see things from their own perspective or force them to believe what they believe in; that way the friendship becomes toxic, and one has to remove themselves from toxic environments for their safety and mental health. Forcing your friends to see things like you do or to believe in your beliefs is one of the many ways differences have an effect on friendship. We are all entitled to our own beliefs; we can be friends, and everyone can have their own beliefs, and with all of that, we can still be compatible, but forcing beliefs or perspectives on others is what makes it look like people with different beliefs are incompatible.