What is Friendship?

Normally, I'd go straight to Dictionary.com and settle this straight away. Whatever prompted me to write about this is also prompting me to come up with my own definitions first. I think that's a sound plan, so let's proceed ;-]

Friendship is one of those maleable terms. It means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and tends to mean different things at different times.

The simplest definition I can come up with is simply: affinity, liking

Friendship is mutual liking. It's feeling connected on some level and desiring good relations with another.

Certainly things only get more complex from there, but as a basic definition, that satisfies me.

What sort of complex manipulations we pull on ourselves and one another. The other day I saw two three-year-olds playing and getting acquainted. Maybe it was their astrology, or mutual cute-ness, or proximity and gender, or maybe that's just 3-year olds for ya... but they engaged in mutual liking of the purest form.

What happens to us as we get older that causes us to ply our friendships with emotional and psychological posturing in order to get our way? Is communication that difficult?

Being in touch with my heart and speaking congruently with its purity is one of my highest life aspirations.

In this regard, I'm pray that I end up learning more from my daughter than she from me.

Cheers,

Craig

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