Friendships
We’ll never be friends if we spend all of our energy trying not to bother each other.
Post by @l-a-clift
someone can still matter to you, still be someone you root for, still be part of your story, without being someone you confide in daily. closeness isn’t the only measure of love. sometimes love becomes spacious.
ayushi thakkar • how friendships change when you grow (and they don’t)
To be close requires going out on a limb and asking for togetherness, despite the potential of rejection, abandonment, or carelessness. All friendship is a bargain of invisible effort and patience and time. Can I call you, will you pick up? Did you like the book I gave you? Where are you right now? There is no closeness without friction. Closeness... See more
modern friendship
Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then reschedule those plans when someone inevitably gets sick, and then bring over Calpol or soup or an extra laptop charger. To water their plants while they’re away, to ask them to take your kids when you’re... See more