Friendship

William Shakespeare once said, “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

But what happens then when a friend demands your silence, or denies your right to grow?

Friendship is a platonic relationship between two people who care about each other. Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of such bonds. Such characteristics include affection; kindness, love, virtue, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, loyalty, mutual understanding and compassion, enjoyment of each other’s company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one’s feelings to others, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

But what if world walks out and it is only you left? What happens then? What will you do? Where will you go? Who will you turn to?

Once that trust is broken, loyalty is diminished, honesty is lost, love is gone, you are no longer able to be yourself. A piece of you is missing, and you feel lonely, empty, incomplete. You feel that the gaping hole in you will never heal, and all that is missing will never be found.

So how do you cope? How do you move on? How do you walk past the person you once had such a strong bond with as if you never met them?

It is quite hard to say what to do with myself. But I think that is what we all struggle with, what to do with ourselves. It is the time before the taking off, the time for asking “will anything ever truly make me happy? Or will I always be changing, always be searching?” I don’t know if there’s any shame in that, as long as the leaps are not too drastic, nor too frequent, as long as each leap is followed by some feeling of joy. It does not need to be everlasting, it never will be.

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

But I’ve begun to question who these friends really are.

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