friendship I remember someone asked me what friend is, I thought for a while and I said that friend is the one I choose to trust. It is out of question that being honest is an indispensable virtue for a friendship. However, when we come to the question whether it is impossible to be totally honest with your friend, I think most of people will say “yes”. If I given the choice, I will also assert that being completely honest to my friends is impossible. Admittedly, friendship needs us telling truth. If an individual finds a friend, what he wants to do is to share his happiness or sadness to his friend, and these things must be true. Well goes an English proverb, “Honesty is the best policy.” And the all this “policy” is conducted in our friendship. For example, every child in their young age will hear a story name Here Comes a Wolf. Liar, the little child in the story, will finally lose the trust from other and will be eaten by the wolves. Fundamentally, telling white lie can comfort our friends’ felling more often than not. Can a doctor be so cruel as to tell a hopeful middle-aged patient that he is terminally ill? Can a person be so insensitive as to tell his friend that his new house is very shabby? Can a man be so absent-minded as to tell his girlfriend that her expensive new dress looks horrible on her? In such situations, a kind person may tell a white lie to his friends instead of giving the cruel truth. Subsequently, sometimes telling the truth will hurt our friends’ confidence. Once in a time, my friend bought a dress, and that dress looks too loose and unsuitable on her. When she asked me how she looks on that dress, I answered that it is terrible for her. I want to be honest, and I don’t want her to show off that dress in front of other friends. Unfortunately, she felt upset and never ware that dress again, and she told me that I hurt her felling that time. The reason for this terrible story happen is not far to seek. In my point of view, tell the truth in inadaptable time would only serve to hurt somebody. In conclusion, we should undoubtedly appeal to be honest with others in most of time, however, not all the time. If want to own a friendship forever, we need sometimes to comfort them, build up their confidence by telling the white lie.