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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I think it was Brit who asked Marc. It's a great question. I suspect we will all have different answers.
We call, in public, pretty much anyone we know 'friend'. It is not the truth. Instead it's a hope that they are, or a defence in case they are not. Most such people are acquaintances, people we happen to know, people we are acquainted with.
A friend is so much more that an acquaintance.
A friend is someone who stands by you, though will not hesitate to tell you when you are wrong.
A friend is not like Chauvin was over Napoleon. Supporting you in acts that they disagree with is not friendship; that is not standing by you.
A friend does not always like you, but, pretty much, loves you.
A friend knows your strengths and weaknesses, allows for them in dealings with you, does their best to help you when you are in need, and, wherever congruent with friendship, bolsters your ego by their friendship.
A friend is someone you are comfortable to talk to about your good times and your bad times.
A friend is someone with whom you can sit in silence, knowing that conversation is not required.
A friend is someone you can disagree with, argue with, even fight with, knowing that the friendship will remain intact.
There is so much more that a friend is. So very much more. Perhaps someone can help me out with some of it?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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