On Friendship

Friendship has to have been the worst concepts ever created.
It can easily be likened to a fence.  Or a giant brick wall.  For two main reasons.

On the one side, and this I suppose is the plus side, declaring friendship to a group of people kind of throws a couple of people behind the wall with you.  It's kind of like, hey let's hang out over here, on this side of Berlin.  This seems great.  There are a bunch of people that you like all hiding out with you while everyone else is left to mingle on the other side.  And if anyone tries to climb the wall, that you think is a "tool" or "douschebag" you can just punch them in the face, kind of like an orc at Helm's Deep in the second Lord of the Rings movie.  Herein lie the problem though.  While I may view some loser in skinny girl's jeans as possibly cool, Gimli down the line is punching him in the face and he goes tumbling back into the throng on the other side.  That friend is at that point lost forever, and it is almost impossible to ever get them back on this side of the wall.
Steadily, you get more and more comfortable with the people that you have on your side of the wall.  You no longer have to muster the energy to climb it and yell to someone new to come on over.  This calming complacency is good, except for the fact that at some point many of those friends will have to leave.  Some head to universities, some just to far off, distant lands.  They may try to communicate with letters or text messages.  But it is not long before the mail man arrives less and less frequently.  Meanwhile, you no longer have the strength to climb that wall.  Your muscles ache with the faintest attempt, and so it's almost impossible to talk to anyone on the other side.  And you become complacent in your complacency and a hermit who spends all night up, writing things like this.

Additionally, the wall takes the other metaphor.  The fence.  Sometimes, someone that you befriend gives you that special tingly feeling inside.  It's great and fantastic.  But often times, though you can talk to that person all the time like the friends that you are, you cannot cross the fence that is your friendship.  You are afraid that maybe if you hop that fence, it'll break beneath your wait.  It isn't rare that sometimes you will just sit on the fence together.  Neither crossing.  Just sitting together so that you can be a little closer.  It isn't unheard of that even this action, perhaps it's the combined weight of both parties, breaks the fence.  And when you add in a third person.  The triangle of fences gets even more complicated.  Even when one is able to cross that fence, often times they miss what they left behind back on their lot of land.  The fence then bars them from the things they loved.  The friends they may ahve left behind.  Sometimes, just the way they used to act.  All the while, someone else might be peering over the fence looking at them.

Wouldn't it be great if it was a little safer to ride the fence?  Wouldn't it be great if we could tear down that wall?

Good luck with that.
If you figure out how to do it, tell me how.

Author's Note

No idea what this.
Was tired and avoiding homework haha
Tell me what ya think.

Reviews

[Kimberly Smith]

nice work ....similar to a poem I wrote lol ...I can relate!!

[nostal]

Continue avoiding homework.
Great piece.

[WriterMe]

Firstly, Favorite-ing. Definitely.
Secondly, this was so apt for what happened to me in school today. And I have sort of come to a conclusion that you cant be friends with everyone. There is always someone who is closer or farther that others. And as for that special friend? I know how that feels. I had one too, and other 'friends' broke us apart. Mainly because we ended up spending way to much time together that they didn't matter anymore.
*sighs*
If only life were that easy, that you could be friends with everyone and treat everyone equally without misunderstandings happening. But I suppose in order for that to happen, you need to have that one special friend to do it alongside you. A friend that would understand, that the friendship you have with him/her is still something unique when as compared to how you act with other friends.

Wow, I dont know what I just said, but I hope it made a teeny amount of sense.
Psh, for avoiding homework this piece sure was something.
I say, AVOID MORE HOMEWORK! =]

I really liked this. Made me think.
Brilliant work. Will be reading more from you.

---Niki