Human Communication - Diary 8

This week, Sir Anwari taught us about functions of friendship, love and family relationship. 

Actually, friendship is an interpersonal relationship that characterized by mutual regard. Everyone need to trust, provides emotional support and sharing interest to their friends to maintain their friendship. In fact, There are 3 types of friendship which are the friendship of reciprocity, the friendship of receptivity, and the friendship of association. Besides that, friendship could help us to achieve specific goals and help us to recognise own attitude. It also help us to expand our worldview. There are three development stages of friendship which are initial contact & acquaintanceship, casual friendship, and close or intimate friendship. The first stage of friendship is initial contact acquaintanceship. In this stage, impressions are formed and it is important to stay open of the presence of your new acquaintances. The second stage of friendship is casual friendship. In this stage, we can doing things together with friends to enhance friendship. The last stage is close and intimate friendship. In this stage, most intimate form of togetherness. Moreover, value of friendship also will affect by culture, gender differences and technology.

Apart from that, Sir Anwari also taught us about love and romantic relationship. Through this lessons, we know that there are many types of loves such as Eros, Ludus, Storge, Mania, Pragma, and Agape. Eros love is basically represents love comes out with physical attraction, beauty and appearance. Ludus love represents the thrill of excitement and pleasure seeking. The ludic lovers who are individualists or self-centered and would only maintain their relationship with their partner until they become bored. Besides that, storge love represents the act of seeking love but with the absence of pasion and emotion in the process. Pragma love refers that the lover more concerned about the ability of the other partner and the benefits that they could gain from the friendship. On the other hand, mania love show that lover love the thrill of having love and at the same is depressed or worried of having love. Lastly, we learn about agape love. Agape love is a truly unconditional love. In this category , they will loving another with no favor expected in return. Besides that, Sir Anwari also play video for us to make us more understanding about type of loves.

Furthermore, Sir Anwari also taught us about the families. In this lesson, we also learn about types of family. In fact, there are three types of family. For example, traditional couples, independent couples, and separate couples. The traditional couples is the conventional form of family because they will shared values, belief and tolerance for one another. Besides, independent couples shows that individuals in this family setting stresses individuality as the main theme of family. The last one is the separate couples. This family setting is not really a family but individuals in this family stay together for a common benefit like paying the rent or sharing living expenses. 

From this lesson, I learn many things about importance of friendship, loves, and families in daily life. All of these relationship play a vital role in my life. Therefore, I hope that I could maintain relationship with my friends, lovers and families.