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[wynutter]

I was thinking about what friendship means. What are friends? What constitutes friendship? Is it sufficient for people to enjoy spending time with each other? Does it require them actively seeking out oppertunities to meet up in some way, shape of form, for some shared activity or simply to talk? What if only one person is active in this way, can

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[sable_veins]

Wow.

Not a subject regularly discussed - or even considered. We spend so much time trying to figure out Love that we neglect differently angled but intrinsically related subjects such as Friendship.

Where do you even start to answer those questions?

[wynutter]

lol, true. I figured since love is beyond my grasp I'd think about something I have a bit more experience about which was friendship.

[steerpikelet]

It's easier to talk about love, because it's so much less complex; part of it at least is instinctual, even chemical.
Also because in some ways friendship is so much of a scarier thing to analyse, because I believe it's more vital to living. vis. - there aren't many people who can't survive for a period of years or so without a lover, but everyone needs friends around them, or in touch, most of the time, to feel even basically okay. And a good friendship is harder to build and more lasting than a love affair, which - probably quite rightly - is something that, however long it lasts, is seen in this society as essentially transitory and ultimately replaceabe.

[northerntown]

If you go to dictionary.com, you find that the word "friendship" is a word that cannot be defined without citing the word itself (for example: "The quality or condition of being friends"), meaning there is no definition. That doesn't answer any of your questions but it's something I found interesting...

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