Jack wrote:Friends can sit in the car silent for hours silently and it not be awkward. They can also sleep in the same bed and it not be weird.
I think that hits the nail on the head.
Yes, too many.susnfx wrote:And women.BillChin wrote:A lot of single men live in that kind of isolation.
Susan
True enough.Domhnall wrote:Jack wrote:Friends can sit in the car silent for hours silently and it not be awkward. They can also sleep in the same bed and it not be weird.
I think that hits the nail on the head.
Amen.jim stone wrote:....
Friendship is a kind of love and it is hard to predict
who we will love. The heart is a mystery. Sometimes
we don't know it ourselves.
Reminds me of the song "If my nose was running money I'd blow it all on you." I found a YouTube of it atmutepointe wrote:When told, "You have something on your nose." Always reply, "Is it money?"
Oh yes, it does!hyldemoer wrote:Does it matter whether its a real friendship or if its just an act out of politeness?
Total strangers have told me startling things about themselves. Since I don't know them from Adam I suppose I could turn around and tell others, especially since they didn't seem to have a problem telling me in the first placeTikva wrote:
Your friend would never tell on you or go advertising with your "secrets" (meaning personal information that's not meant for anybody else's ears).
For me, such are not in any sense friends. At all. I've had that happen to me, and for as much as one might invest in the "at least they're talking about you" factor (was it Oscar Wilde who said that? Sounds like him), the account is bankrupt. My reasons:hyldemoer wrote:The total opposite to that are the so called "friends" (rather, just acquaintances) that might either fabricate or wrongly interpret things about me and blab it around.
But I ask you now, if they're fabricating or interpreting out of their own subjective experience are they less worthy of friendship
or is it just a feature one's friendship with them that one would have to work around?