A friend encourages you to achieve your dreams, and offers advice, but even when you don’t follow it, she still respects and loves you. I have lots of best of friends and the quality that I treasure most in my friends are that no matter what, they are always there for me.

— Avanthi Shrestha

The first quality I treasure in my friends is that they are not judgmental. In today’s world, all eyes are judging you. And sometimes we have to pretend to be someone else. But with friends, I can truly be myself. The second quality is that despite knowing my cooking (in)ability they have guts to actually eat my foods every time and tell me that it is as horrible as ever.

— Shraddha Thapa

The amazing two qualities that I treasure most about my friends are honesty and togetherness. Honesty is the best policy and without honesty no relation will work out. Real friendship lasts a long time. Together in happiness and together in loneliness and sadness has to be the motto to make friendship last forever.

—Muna Maharjan,

Swoyambhu

I don’t treasure any one or two qualities in my friends because I adore everything about them. Everyone is beautiful in their own ways. I can’t search for the qualities I like in others for them to be my friends. I just like to explore everyone’s thinking and anyone can be my friend. But to be my best friend, they should completely understand me and make me understand them.

— Ritika Bista

Transparency and honesty are two qualities I treasure in my friends because these two qualities make friendship deep and everlasting as there are hardly any room for misunderstanding to creep up.

— Krisha Amatya

A friend should treat friends the way s/he wants to be treated. S/He must must know how to keep promises, must listen when a friend is talking, must be considerate. Someone who knows the rotten bits about you and loves you anyway. And would never tell anyone. The same person that you can ring at 4:00 am and ask for help and know that they will help you without questions and without reprimands.

— Khusi Kedia, Kathmandu

Picking just two qualities to treasure in a friend is difficult, but I would opt for a friend who is understanding and supportive. These two qualities would make the person special to me. One who will support my crazy ideas and try to understand the situations I create or fall into would be the friend that I cherish.

— Geshan Manandhar

Looking for the qualities in one’s best friends is not easy because you love your friend the way s/he is. The only thing I look for in my best friend are the similarities between us and the capability to understand and cope with each other. My best friend should be one who never wants my bad, someone who feels my pain and sorrow.

— Deeptee BC

The two qualities that I expect in my fellows are someone who understands and shares my joys and sorrows. These are the vital qualities of a good buddy. Here understanding means to praise the good qualities of a buddy and to criticise his/her wrongdoings. What I always stress is ‘critics are good friends rather than admirers’.

— Amar Singh

The two qualities that I treasure most in my friend is my friend’s ability to understand me, which makes me comfortable in every situation and feel supported. The other is when I feel lost, my friend is my morale booster.

— Ila Yadav, Biratnagar

My best friend’s name is Elisha. I love her because she is very charming and her face is so bright that if we have any problems and we see her face, our mood will change. She is also very innocent and paints so beautifully that no one can keep their eyes off her and her paintings.

— Shristi Thapa, VSN GEMS, Thapathali

The first thing I want in my friend is trustworthiness. Secondly, I love friends who are meek and mild and are open hearted.

— Bisista Koirala, Old Baneshwor, Kathmandu

Helpfulness and honesty are two essential qualities in friendship because helping a friend makes one understand each other. And honesty is necessary to make the bond strong.

— Hem Moktan, PTI

College

I am the kind of guy who shows my faith in my companions and am always keen to try and think and understand things from their point of view. In return, I expect the same from him/her because I believe that for any relationship these are the essential elements.

— Binay Raj Rijal,

Xavier College

I like the honesty and the sense of non-violence that my best friend possesses. He criticises, points out flaws and advises me in right direction. At first I used to become mad with fury with him, but in time I realised his worth and thanked him. But he said, “In friendship no thanks, no sorry.” He is a very calm person and gives me encouragement during time of adversity.

— Chhabilal Chhetri

Honesty and punctuality are the two qualities I expect from my friends. It is because a person who is honest can be considered trustworthy too. In like manner, punctuality is such a discipline that helps a person to move ahead with the pace of time.

— Ambika Pandey, Chitawan

The two qualities I treasure most in my friends are — they become my pillars of strength when I’m depressed, and they understand my all my feelings.

— Kums, Kopan