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Friends Forever?
August 23, 2020
Down on the Corner : Friends Forever?
“You can’t choose your relatives,” as they say.
Whether that’s fortunate or not is a discussion for another day. What I’m thinking about now is not family but friends. Our friends are not bequeathed to us. We choose them for a variety of reasons or maybe even for no reason at all. We just like them, our friends. In truth, acquiring friends does involve a certain selection process, conscious or unconscious. How else to explain the gravitational force of similar traits, styles, hobbies in winding up with these people we call “friends”?
Let’s face it. We like people who like us and are, by and large like us. Sort of makes sense. This transaction (and that’s what it is) results in the forming of social bonds, some tight, others looser. Together they create our “circle of friends.” Very neat and tidy until something comes up that threatens the circle.
Let’s leave it at that. Family is thrust upon us, friends we pick. Some friends we can lose though and that’s where I’m leaving this ramble, with this question; what’s a deal-breaker for you? Is there one thing that a friend might do or say or believe in that says to you, ”Gee, I’m not sure I like this person anymore.”
What might cause you to turn a friend into a former friend? Bigotry, manners economics or ....politics?
So the question remains. Friends forever or friends until...?
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