International Friendship Day 2021 : How to Celebrate ?

International Friendship Day 2021: Know Date, History, Importance, Significance, How to Celebrate

International Friendship Day 2021:

Friendship is a bond that two or more people share. It’s another word for love and International Friendship Day is celebrated to give a toast to friends who are there just a call away. Everyone has their 3 am the friend who handles your tantrums and pampers you always. The day is celebrated once a year. Friends are the sunshine of life, and without them, life would be very boring indeed. So on International Day of Friendship 2021, we take a look at how this day came.

International Friendship Day 2021 Date

International Friendship Day is celebrated annually on July 30. The International Day of Friendship is a United Nations (UN) day that promotes the role that friendship plays in promoting peace in many cultures. The UN has a special day to promote the concept of friendships across diverse backgrounds and cultures. However, countries like India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and United States celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August every year.

International Friendship Day 2021 History

International Friendship Day was first proposed in Paraguay in the year 1958, however, other countries celebrate it on different days and months. World Friendship Crusade came up with the suggestion to celebrate the day as World Friendship Day on July 30, 1958. The day was first organised by the founder of Hallmark Cards, Joyce Hall in 1930. Later on, people realised it was a trick to sell cards.

International Friendship Day 2021 Importance And Significance

International Friendship Day is important in the sense that it celebrates the strong bond of friendship between two or more people regardless of their caste, creed or colour. It is a day that generates passion for a better world where all are united for the greater good, and it is a day that brings together people who are fighting for better world where all are united for the greater good.

International Friendship Day 2021: How to Celebrate

International Friendship Day is celebrated by friends exchanging greeting cards and gifts, spending quality time with their best friends, some even make friendship bands and tie it on their friends’ wrists on this day as an act of confirmation and simply put in extra efforts to make their friends feel With Friendship Day 2021 just around the corner, make sure you spend time with your friends.

 

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Hilarious Memes To Send Your Pal This International Friendship Day

Want to make sure your buddies know just how much they’re appreciated? The friend memes to share for International Day Of Friendship are heartfelt, sweet, and sometimes hilarious. Because friends definitely deserve their own holiday, you can make this meme-fest an annual tradition.

Observed every July 30, the International Day of Friendship is a UN holiday dedicated to celebrating the role that friendships play in inspiring peace and bridging differences, according to Time and Date. And if a strong meme game is the basis for your friendship, then sharing these sweet and funny friend memes is a wonderful idea. Whether your buddies live in the same town or another country, your bond is unmistakable.

And if you really want to think deeply about the subject (and maybe cry a little bit), then here’s what 6 girls had to say about their best friends. It’ll make you think fondly about your childhood friendships, and maybe value your adult buddies a little more, too. And really, who doesn’t want to hang out, color, and watch movies with their bestie?

Now that you’re feeling a bit misty and nostalgic, here’s the best memes about friendship you can share with your own crew. Let them know they’re loved and appreciated.

Roommates Forever

U and ur 3rd @ will live in this#MEMES #BestFriend pic.twitter.com/IWvLOva60L

— Chandraa…? (@Chandraa0013) July 1, 2021

Because your BFF already knows everything about you, why even bother with privacy? A house next door with an attached friendship walkway just makes sense. It’s the easiest way to visit as often as you like (AKA always).

 

Best Work Friends Forever

Here’s to all the work friends who make the daily grind just fly by. Seriously, colleagues who are also your BFFs make any job about a hundred times better. After all, they’re going to understand your work frustrations like no one else.

Let’s Go

Jumping into a new adventure with your bestie is how you make the best memories. Whether it’s trying out a new restaurant or taking a spontaneous road trip, your bestie is the one who can always help you step out of your comfort zone. What are your best memories with your best friend?

 

The Best Pics

You know the friendship is real when you send your best-worst selfies to one another. Sure, your carefully posed pics are posted for all to see. But only your closest friends can be trusted with those intensely silly photos of you pulling a duck face with crossed eyes.

 

You Just Get Me

There’s nothing better than a friend who accepts all your weirdnesses and quirks without question. They just get your whole vibe. Best of all, you’re totally OK with all their quirks, too.

Here’s To A Bright Future

If you don’t have post-retirement plans with your bestie, what are you even doing? Imagining your golden years together can be hilarious. You can keep being impossibly inseparable for years to come.

 

Perfect Plans

Friends who can share a pizza and dish about anything are so special. Whether you drop by your local shop or bake a homemade French toast pizza recipe together, pizza friends are the best, any way you slice it. (Yes, pun intended.)

You Share Everything

Do you regularly share clothes or accessories with your best friend? At some point, it’s no longer “my” stuff and “your” stuff. It’s just our stuff.

 

One Mind

You think alike. You speak alike. Sometimes you even share the same thought at the same time, just to prove this connection.

 

Best Friends FOREVER

Honestly, isn’t it time BFF bracelets made a comeback? Guess I’m off to shop at Claire’s for the first time in ages. Which design would my bestie like most: hearts or butterflies?

Fiercely Supportive

To be fair, you don’t have to be perfect to lift anybody else up. Simply knowing when to listen or send a supportive text about friendship is enough. Your friend gets it. (Sharing a list of friend memes in honor of International Friendship Day is another wonderful option.)

 

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What Should Leaders Know About Friendships At Work?

Can you be properly friends with someone you work with? Some say yes, others say no. Yet there’s plenty of research to suggest that, generally speaking, we highly value workplace friendships and having these friendships positively impacts how we approach our jobs. This is particularly relevant in light of the burnout epidemic we are currently experiencing and the fact that today is International Friendship Day.

A study of employees by U.K-based team-building company Wildgoose found that more than half (57%) of workers say that having a work best friend makes their work more enjoyable, while 22% argue that it makes them as, or more, productive. What’s more, it seems that many workers who don’t have strong relationships in the workplace may be struggling with loneliness since 15% of those who don’t have a work best friend would ideally like one.

Friendship is critical to business

“All of us appreciate having good friends in our lives,” says Nic Marks, a happiness expert, statistician and the CEO of Friday Pulse, developer of the Friday One Happiness Test. “It’s good to have people whom we care about and who care for us. Why should work be any different, especially when we consider how relational the world of work is?”

As Marks explains: “We have thick, core relationships with our team mates, as well as thinner, more peripheral ones with other colleagues, customers, and suppliers. The quality of these relationships not only affects our own experience of work – work is indisputably better when we get along with people – it is also business critical.”

 

But workplace friendships remain a controversial topic for a number of reasons, not least because they are associated with the formation of cliques. Friendships can also potentially undermine the effectiveness of teams.

Teamship above friendship

“Some of the worst-performing teams I know are great friends but they can’t get anything done,” says Pam Hamilton, a collaboration expert and author of Supercharged Teams: 30 Tools of Great Teamwork. “Collective intelligence research tells us that teams who avoid constructive conflict in favor of consensus make fewer successful decisions because they don’t challenge each other enough.”

Hamilton believes that while it’s easy to assume that friendship is “the first step towards teamship”, it’s really the other way round. “We come to work to achieve something, whether that’s to launch a new product or to serve our customers. Putting friendship before teamship means we might launch an inferior product because we didn’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, or forget to serve our customers because we’re too busy having a good time.”

Should bosses be friends with their staff?

Workplace friendships can be particularly controversial when they cross hierarchical lines. This is because managers may be perceived as giving preferential treatment to line reports whom they’re on friendlier terms with.

“The traditional answer to whether bosses can be close friends with their staff is no,” says Paul Hargreaves, a B-Corp ambassador, speaker and author of The Fourth Bottom Line: Flourishing in the new era of compassionate leadership. “Some may argue that friendships at work make it difficult to address issues of performance management. Others might think that work and pleasure don’t mix. And still others say that bosses should keep their private life private and not let their people see their whole self.”

Hargreaves himself disagrees with this view. “For far too long we have run our businesses with leaders leading in a rather distant, mechanistic, command-and-control mode, which no longer works. Far better for businesses to be full of people, including bosses, being their real selves, focused around a strong purpose and having fun while achieving their goals. Within this healthy environment, friendships at all levels will inevitably happen.”

The rise of remote friendships

Of course, one of the obstacles to workplace friendship today is the fact that so many employees are now working remotely, with hybrid working set to be a permanent feature of the workplace going forward.

“It falls to company leaders and managers to ensure the culture promotes camaraderie. Culture is a living thing and to engage a remote workforce, you really want to be proactive about shaping it,” says Chris Dyer, founder and CEO of software company PeopleG2 and co-author of Remote Work: Redesign Processes, Practices and Strategies to Engage a Remote Workforce.

Dyer suggests that leaders can promote camaraderie by recognizing employees, in team meetings, for collaborative success. “Friendship and friendly culture don’t depend on proximity, but on deliberate cultural leadership,” he explains.

Friendly policies

Organizational policies and processes can play a role in fostering workplace friendships, just as they help to support other workplace-related activities. “Relationships will need to be frequently established with new colleagues,” notes Stephen Wyatt, author of Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution.“This will require supportive HR systems, such as designated ‘buddies’, and conducive physical environments for the times when workers are actually at work.”

He continues: “Once established, social media and structured support provided by the organization will help to maintain relationships. The frequent need for upskilling provides another avenue for relationships to develop – within the learning cohorts and curated through mentoring and knowledge-sharing.”

A final thought on friendship

Regardless of whether leaders promote, or frown upon, workplace friendships, they will continue to exist. Humans are hardwired to form close connections with others and we are likely to form especially strong bonds with those we have something in common with. Inevitably, we are likely to find many of those people at work.

 

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International Day of Friendship: Friends that give the creepiest of birthday surprises

We all have those friends that are your ride or die crew. Those friends that are more like family, those ones that you don’t need to see daily, but when you do catch up, it’s like no time has passed at all.

Well, in honour of International Day of Friendship, we take a look at a video of a group of friends who took it one step too far when it comes to surprising their friend, for what seems like her birthday.

“International Day of Friendship was designated by the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.). On July 30, we step back and get thankful for these relationships worldwide, as they promote and encourage peace, happiness, and unity,” National Today Website reads.

We love the sentimentality behind this day and we think that the world would definitely be a better place with more friends than enemies. But there are those friends that always take things a step too far.

Those friends were captured ‘surprising’ their friend in what we deem a creepy way.

 

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Friendship Day (also International Friendship Day or Friend’s Day)

is a day in several countries for celebrating friendship. It was initially promoted by the greeting cards’ industry, evidence from social networking sites shows a revival of interest in the holiday that may have grown with the spread of the Internet, particularly in India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. Mobile phones, digital communication and social media have contributed to popularize the custom. Those who promote the holiday in South Asia attribute the tradition of dedicating a day in the honour of friends to have originated in the United States in 1935 but it actually dates back to 1919. The exchange of Friendship Day gifts like flowers, cards and wrist bands is a popular tradition on this occasion. It was first proposed in 1958 in Paraguay as the “International Friendship Day“.

Friendship Day celebrations occur on different dates in different countries. The first World Friendship Day was proposed for 30 July in 1958, by the World Friendship Crusade. On 27 April 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared 30 July as official International Friendship Day. However, some countries, like India, celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August. In Nepal, Friendship day is celebrated on 30 July each year. In Oberlin, Ohio, Friendship Day is celebrated on 9 April each year.

 

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What means International Friendship Day?

According to the United Nations, the UN General Assembly proclaimed July 30 as International Day of Friendship with the idea that friendship between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities.

Is August 2 Friendship Day?

International Day of Friendship 2021: While India and Malaysia celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August, Oberlin, Ohio, celebrate this day on April 8 every year. Every year, the first Sunday of August is celebrated as Friendship Day in India.

Which is the World Friendship Day?
July 30
International Friendship Day is celebrated annually on July 30. The International Day of Friendship is a United Nations (UN) day that promotes the role that friendship plays in promoting peace in many cultures.

Is International Friend day?

International Day of Friendship was designated by the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.).

What is International friendship Month?

Created by Kappa Delta Sorority, International Women’s Friendship Month encourages women to remember the important roles friends play in their lives. Throughout the month of September, women around the world celebrate with fun get-togethers, special adventures and all-out celebrations.

Is Today World’s Best friend’s day?

June 8
June 8 is celebrated as the National Best Friends Day in the US. On this day, you can express your love for your biggest support system, your best friend.

Who created Friendship Day?

Dr Ramon Artemio Bracho
Dr Ramon Artemio Bracho introduced the concept of creating a World Friendship Day on July 20, 1958.