FRIENDSHIP
Forever Until The End, We Sail
The highest form of connection anyone should strive for is friendship.
With yourself, your spouse, your family — friendship should be the foundation.
Yet, in the society I grew up in, romantic relationships often erase friendship. Once lovers, people forget how to be friends, then wonder why things fall apart.
Siblings drift because they never learned to be friends.
I often hear the phrase, “You’re more than a friend,” and I cringe. What could be more than friendship?
Friendship transcends blood ties, strengthens bonds beyond measure, and holds the power to sustain love in its purest form.
But people have disrespected friendship. The ‘friend zone’ is demonized, treated as a pit for those who failed to secure the relationship they wanted. But why? Because many were never interested in friendship to begin with. They called themselves friends but only as a stepping stone to something else.
And that’s the problem.
If people valued friendship for what it truly is, there would be more peace in the world. If we stopped thinking with our sexual organs and started thinking with our hearts, we would know this.
This might be the most important article I’ve written because it speaks to something deeply magical.
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Be a friend — first, to yourself.
Only then can you selflessly be a friend to others. And when friendship isn’t reciprocated, you won’t feel depleted — you’ll feel empowered.
Go all the way, in sensibility, for your friends.
Go all the way.
Until the end.
Sail.
Author’s Note
Hey there, It has been a while since I left one of these.
Given the theme of this article, I have lots of great friends and it makes me glad.
But this time I would like to give a special thanks to My Friend, Ami.
Ami has read all 19 of my articles in great detail and have helped me improve with her feedback and presence whenever I needed her. Get you a friend like Ami.
And to you dear reader, Thank you for reading! I will see you very soon. Sooner than you expect.
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