Friendship

Have you ever stopped, looked around, and wondered where the hell your friends came from? I don't mean the ones on Facebook, that exist as little more than text on a screen and random encounters at a party. No I mean your true friends, your BFFs. The ones you can tell anything to; and you know they'd listen. The closest thing you have to love without all the complication of dating and sex. Ever wonder how your friendship formed? There's over six billion people on this planet; and somehow you two meet. Sure it's a geographical thing, more than anything, but there's thousands of people living around you. Like bacteria in a drop of water, you are a minute nothing surrounded by others like you. And yet this friend exists; and they talk to you. You look back and barely remember how you met. Perhaps you were in diapers, or you just bumped into each other. Why are you friends, anyway? Sure you have common likes and interests, but it's more than that. A random stranger next to you might enjoy Doctor Who, but you aren't going to tell them how you struggle with your sexuality. Humans are social creatures, we form packs. Think about how many groups you have. You have work friends, old acquaintances, Facebook buddies. Would you reveal to any of them that you have a self-harm problem? So what makes you best friend so different, so important that life without them is like a fish trying to comprehend not living in water. A fact the mind literally can not process. Sure they bug the hell out of you sometimes, but that's the point. You can look past their flaws to see the true person. Sure they may never shut up, they might say the wrong thing or act in a manner most inappropriate. But where random strangers see a twat you see the true side, the side hidden from the world. The 'you; that only you and they will ever know about. Friendship is hard at times, irritating, annoying. But would you want it any other way?