What are friends REALLY for???

*Plato*

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I recently came to a conclusion about life, love and friendship that was cynical to say the least. I know that all of these subjects have been tainted by various useless discussions, and yet... here I go...

To fall in love is probably the greatest feeling in the world - to me atleast. When it happens, nothing else matters and life becomes a joyful song. I am the artist, my feelings the music and the world... well, my audience. It's just sad that falling in love, means being blinded by it. Means, missing those small things that ruins relationships. In the end, a year or two passes and ultimately you are alone and solitary in your failure.

What is friendship other than love between two people? Might not be the same kind of love - obviously!!!! Different kind of love, means different rules, right!? Right. This love is supposed to mean that you don't need to take so much bull@#%& as in romantic love. You are SUPPOSED to share it. You take a little bit of my bull%$#@, I take a little bit of yours...
Not that you needn't do it in romantic type of love - but as my mother always says: In love, there is always a fool...
That is not SUPPOSED to be the case in a friendship. Friendship means equality, understanding, compassion, comprimise and all those other clichè stuff.
Just like failed relationship, you get failed friendships. These are the rock-slides on your road of life you don't get over so easily.

I had a friend. She wasn't a good friend, or even my best friend - she was my soulmate (platonic). We had a bond that I thought was unbreakable. That proved to be stupid, because when the time came for the big L.O.V.E in her life, he sort of bonked me off my pedestal. I was nowhere to be found on her priority list anymore, and I had to go about my life alone. I hate that word... almost more as the feeling...:(
I think, up to this day - that is one of the deepest scars I carry with me.

As life do, it moves along and I made new friends. They were good friends, best friends and better friends. Disappointment, upon disappointment lead me to believe that, like there is only one true love in your lifetime, so there is only one true friendship.
All the others are mediocre relationships that cloud your judgement and take up time. I say that, because I haven't had a friend since, that would die to save my life. That would bend over backwards, and bend over once again to accomodate me or my feelins. Instead, I've been the one (as always) that saves the world, one friend at a time.
- just for the record; this isn't a self-loving essay... :D

So if friends let you down, break your heart disappoint you and make deeper and uglier scars than any spouse or lover could ever do... WHAT IS THE USE?
 

LandyMan

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So if friends let you down, break your heart disappoint you and make deeper and uglier scars than any spouse or lover could ever do... WHAT IS THE USE?

Thats exactly why I got rid of all the fcukers! :p
 

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I recently came to a conclusion about life, love and friendship that was cynical to say ..............................
.......friends let you down, break your heart disappoint you and make deeper and uglier scars than any spouse or lover could ever do... WHAT IS THE USE?

Oh boo hoo! :sick:

We all die alone. People suck.

Hmmm. Maybe all the ones you know! Or maybe it's just you. :eek:

Thats exactly why I got rid of all the fcukers!

Hence the nick name! :D

Not 2 sound rude or anything..... BUT u seriously need 2 get laid man....

Absolutely!!! :D
 

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I had a friend. She wasn't a good friend, or even my best friend - she was my soulmate (platonic). We had a bond that I thought was unbreakable. That proved to be stupid, because when the time came for the big L.O.V.E in her life, he sort of bonked me off my pedestal. I was nowhere to be found on her priority list anymore, and I had to go about my life alone. I hate that word... almost more as the feeling...:(
I think, up to this day - that is one of the deepest scars I carry with me.

Expecting people never to change is like waiting to be kicked out of the gene pool. Evolve, and let the chips fall where they may. Or get yourself some handy-dandy imaginary friends :D

We all die alone. People suck.

I won't. I'll have all my perfect imaginary friends. :p

Hence the nick name! :D

One Man Army Corps? I've been wondering...
 

*Plato*

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So many intellectual replies...

Stix has to be a male... who else would make such a chauvinistic remark??? You shag away... and enjoy it too, cause you are missing the point dude!!!
 

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I dont believe in best friend ,as my friend hung himself by a belt over a women,and this on valentines day..go figure
He left me with guilt (as i did not see the signs of suicide)How could i ,i was just 19 years old at the time,At least he left me with good memorys.THis reply is dedicated to you bro..doppy d
 

*Plato*

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I dont believe in best friend ,as my friend hung himself by a belt over a women,and this on valentines day..go figure
He left me with guilt (as i did not see the signs of suicide)How could i ,i was just 19 years old at the time,At least he left me with good memorys.THis reply is dedicated to you bro..doppy d

You see, that is my point exactly... The woman scarred your friend, he scarred you... its a cycle...
My deepest sympathies, dablakmark8. I feel for you, but I have no decent reply or advice (not that you need it); but I am also just a mere soul in this whirpool we call life. I don't know the answers...:confused:
 

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There are no real answers dude. It's 100% personal, and is dependent on yours and mine and anyone else's personal opinion. A 'friend' as you put it, is whatever you want from that person. Be it emotional support, physical support *ahem*, or just social support. We make friends to have company, to be supported, that's it. So a friend burnt you, I don't see how you ever expected not to be, it happens all the time man. The point is that if that person treated you that way, it is no excuse to blame 'external influences', if that person wanted to keep you as their friend, they would have, full stop. To quote Shakespeare Sonnet 116, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove". Now clearly you could replace 'Love', with 'Friendship'. If this remover succeeded in removing the friendship, then it clearly isn't true friendship. It is very easy to sustain friendships while in relationships, so if this person knocked you off so easily, you obviously are quite mistaken about your soulmate.

I have been in similar situations with friends who choose to go against me in light of preferring to avoid confrontation with other people. If that was the case, then that person was not my friend, and he/she can do whatever they choose. I would think the same is applicable in your situation.

Your analogy of friendship being like love is interesting, although not entirely plausible. Friendship is indeed a bond that can become quite deep and involved, though once it starts to seem like it is love, then my friend, that is exactly what it is. If you felt so deeply for this person, perhaps you had crossed the line between friendship and love, and that is quite dangerous territory. The person might have felt threatened by you, and love is much easier to break off than friendship, imo.

Therefore i think if it was so easy for this person to break you off, and you were indeed friends and not lovers, then this person was not infact a true friend. You say that you haven't found anyone that compares, i think it's just a matter of time. Friendship is all about sacrifices, and maybe you need to make some more sacrifices to find a friend that would put up with you :)

There's your intellectual answer, enjoy
 

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as friendship normally involves TWO people, have you thought that your experiences are perhaps caused by the fact that you suck at being a friend?

not a persoanl attack, but if everything i touch has blood on it, it normally means my finger is bleeding...and if all your friendships suck, then maybe the problem is closer to home? perhaps you just expect too much from a friend.

my advice? get more than one friend.
 

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I personally find it hard to make friends. Recently it felt like I had lost my best friend in the whole world but that is something I have to deal with. Friends do come and go. That is something we have to expect. People do come and go from our lives
 

*Plato*

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Friendship is all about sacrifices, and maybe you need to make some more sacrifices to find a friend that would put up with you :)

If cyber standin ovations were possible - I would give you one. You can't expect someone to understand the intensity of a situation, over the internet; however glorified it may be. You are wise and I appreciate your input, but that is the point I tried to make... obviously not clear enough. I am the person making the sacrifices... complicating my life for the sake of others.
Friendship is important to me, I do not believe in doing anything halfway; you are either my friend, or you are not.
My friends are therefore few, and I always thought that that way, I will always know where I stand with them. Mistake...
The closer to your heart you let people in... the more pain they cause in the end.

All that is left to do, is to have more mediocre friendships and learn to be shallow... makes life easier I guess...
 

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Dunno who said it, but this sums it up for me:

Friends will help you move, real friends will help you move bodies
 
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