From the SGI President SGI President Ikeda meets students at the Soka Schools, Jan. 18.
Inferior friendship refers to friendship that is based on money or material gain.
But superior friendship, really caring for your friends, means you are concerned enough about their welfare to be willing to confront them about negative and destructive aspects of their lives and try to help them remove the causes for unhappiness they are making. Superior friendship is wishing the best for your friends with all your heart and striving to grow and walk together with them on the path of justice and truth. Ultimately, the only friendships that last are those you have with people who are right for you. That is another way in which friends are like a mirror. If you make friends with corrupt and malicious people, you will be dragged down with them.