A Plug for Friendship
May 21st, 2008 by ljkim
Imagine what you would look like if you didn’t look in the mirror for a few days… I don’t know about you, but I’d look like a mess! Which isn’t really a big deal, so what if I’m messy on the outside? But we said that friends are like mirrors…in that they can see what you can’t see about yourself. And as a result you absolutely NEEEED friends whom you trust to tell you things… deep introspective things like “stop that, you’re embarrassing me!”
I’ve talked to a lot of people who don’t have friends around… They’re mostly elderly or homeless or something like that – and you can tell… There are obvious rough edges that can be rubbed out in a few hours of friendly company. What’s interesting is you often see this in either “successful” (career-wise) or “super-creative-type” people too. People who work long hours and “don’t have time for friends” or artistic visionaries who are absorbed in their own thing and don’t bother having friends… What they don’t realize is how much this holds them back from the things they really want: career-types can be even more successful if they learned to have real friendships, and artistic visionaries can benefit from the levity and different viewpoints that friends provide… Friendship is an afterthought in our society – sex and money are everything, friendship is considered nothing – Yet we long for it (sometimes), and we need it (all of the time). So stop that you’re embarrassing me!
[About the photo: Some punks playing cards on the pizza table.]
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