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noun

1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter.
3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile.

A friend is someone who is there for you.
A friend is someone who you can trust; who keeps your secrets.
A friend is someone you stand up for.
Someone you care for.
Someone… Someone important…?
Someone…

I've been finding myself questioning the meaning of being a friend; of friendship. What does it truly mean to be a friend with someone? In forging that bond with someone, what have you given to them? What power do they now hold over; what power have you gained over them? How can you manipulate them; how can they you?

How do you become friends with someone?

It seems so easy when you're a child. You see the small children running around at recess. They so easily forge a bond with another over a game of tag. Do they even realise what it truly means to be friends? That in a sense… You've put your life in their hands? That a friend – an actual friend – can just as easily grip your heart and squeeze? That a friend can lift a thousand stones from your shoulder as easily as they twist the sanity of your mind?

How do you become friends, really?

Do you become friends by saying hello? Do you become friends by sharing your interests? Sleeping over? Sharing food? Sharing intimate secrets…? What draws the proverbial line between acquaintance, friendship and lovers; between a comrade and an enemy; between a colleague and a companion?

How complicated does friendship have to be?

It seems simple enough, does it not? Friendship is having fun with another person. Friendship is play fighting, making jokes, laughing, crying, sharing secrets, and just being there. But is that all? Friendship demands so much, it's amazing that people can have multiple friendships. Friendships demands trust, reliance, compassion, empathy, equality, confidence… and openness. How can one person express so much emotion to a single other a hundred times over?

Who is truly a friend?

If you meet someone online, because you can't see them, are they truly a friend? If you can pour your heart out to them, and they're always there for you, are they a friend? If you speak with said online friend every day, play games, share stories, exchange gifts, are they not friends? Why are those met years ago via the growing web that is the internet treated by those around us as lesser than someone who you've just met?

What is a friend?
Why is it so hard to be a friend…
Why is it so hard… to be a good… friend?

Description
[frend]

noun

1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter.
3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile.

A friend is someone who is there for you.
A friend is someone who you can trust; who keeps your secrets.
A friend is someone you stand up for.
Someone you care for.
Someone… Someone important…?
Someone…

I've been finding myself questioning the meaning of being a friend; of friendship. What does it truly mean to be a friend with someone? In forging that bond with someone, what have you given to them? What power do they now hold over; what power have you gained over them? How can you manipulate them; how can they you?

How do you become friends with someone?

It seems so easy when you're a child. You see the small children running around at recess. They so easily forge a bond with another over a game of tag. Do they even realise what it truly means to be friends? That in a sense… You've put your life in their hands? That a friend – an actual friend – can just as easily grip your heart and squeeze? That a friend can lift a thousand stones from your shoulder as easily as they twist the sanity of your mind?

How do you become friends, really?

Do you become friends by saying hello? Do you become friends by sharing your interests? Sleeping over? Sharing food? Sharing intimate secrets…? What draws the proverbial line between acquaintance, friendship and lovers; between a comrade and an enemy; between a colleague and a companion?

How complicated does friendship have to be?

It seems simple enough, does it not? Friendship is having fun with another person. Friendship is play fighting, making jokes, laughing, crying, sharing secrets, and just being there. But is that all? Friendship demands so much, it's amazing that people can have multiple friendships. Friendships demands trust, reliance, compassion, empathy, equality, confidence… and openness. How can one person express so much emotion to a single other a hundred times over?

Who is truly a friend?

If you meet someone online, because you can't see them, are they truly a friend? If you can pour your heart out to them, and they're always there for you, are they a friend? If you speak with said online friend every day, play games, share stories, exchange gifts, are they not friends? Why are those met years ago via the growing web that is the internet treated by those around us as lesser than someone who you've just met?

What is a friend?
Why is it so hard to be a friend…
Why is it so hard… to be a good… friend?