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| Prompt: “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ― P.G. Wodehouse. Think about your friends for a minute, do you share the same taste in literature? Maybe movies? Maybe food? What makes your friends special to you? *** I'm old. Kinda. I have certainly been around the sun enough to have collect many different groups of friends, each with their own unique interests - to the point that you'd be forgiven in thinking I have split personalities.... not just one... many. What makes a friend special is the experiences that we share together. Yes, we may have similar tastes in literature, art, music, movies, food, or sports. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. And it's not what friendship is based on - at least not the ones that last. I love debating what's better... Star Wars or Star Trek, or who could lift Mjolnir, just as much as I like talking about moon phases and why I think the crows outside my house are my spirit animals - yes, I have my own murder! I love reading about Welsh, British, and European folklore, as much as loosing myself in a Stephen King novel. I have friends that cover the different facets of my personality; the loud, the crazy, the quiet, the creative, the dark sides of me. Each phase of my life has held different challenges, "hardships", and lesson that needed to be learnt. It's the people who have survived those baptisms of fire with me that hold the title of friends. Surviving (high)school, college, broken hearts, betrayals, work at different companies, kids.... There is a different type of friends:  The transient ones that will come into your life at a certain point and then leave as you move on - they were never meant to stay in your life. You'll say hi in passing, you might remember their name - you might not. There are the other ones that were important to you, they made you who you are, you look back on them fondly (or not) but it's with hindsight. And then there are those that are so embedded in your bones and your souls that there is no removing them - and to be honest it feels like home having them there, so why would you.It's the later that gets to see all of me; the good, the bad, and the ever so slightly twisted. I guess that's what makes a friend special - the ones that you let see behind the curtain and they love you anyway. |
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