"Best Friend Forever"Among many friends that people have, some of them may eventually become true friends. Those who finally become true friends usually have these characteristics.
First, true friends have a commitment to their friends’ happiness. True friends are consistently willing to put their friends’ happiness before friendship. True friends will not refrain from telling something that may even risk breaking the friendship for the sake of their friends’ happiness. That is because they will not lack the mercy to correct their friends when the friends are wrong.
The next characteristic is respect. True friends respect their friends’ life principle, and will not ask them to place the friendship before the principle. They will not ask their friends to compromise the principle in the name of friendship or anything else.
The last characteristic deals with a good influence. True friends inspire their comrades to live up to their best potential, and not to indulge their friends’ best drive.
Best friends forever are friends with those traits. In a friendship of people with such characters, people can look forward to having healthy relationship, which is a contributory factor in life happiness.

Question:
1. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
2. What general information do you get after reading the passage?
3. What specific information do you get?
4. What is the function of each paragraph?
5. How is each paragraph related to each other?​