Google says it's "the emotions or conduct of friends." What is a friend? Well apparently it's "a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection."
Well thanks Google, you just answered my question. Not. Please that was so not helpful. Not to mention extremely vague. Psh.
So according to your definition, Google, friendship could be purely emotion-based. The feeling of buddiness, zero action required. Hm, questionable. Then you go on to say 'conduct'. I guess that's closer. You have to at least behave like a friend. But come on, you could put your best buddy self forward, pretend to care, but really, not give two chewed pieces of gum about the other person. I'd hardly call that friendship.
A "bond of mutual affection" sound promising. It has to be a 2-way thing that links two people together. Plus affection sounds like such a warm, fuzzy word. But it's just a feeling really. And feelings are so temperamental. They come and go and change for good reasons, bad reasons, and no reason whatsoever. Where is the commitment, the I-will-stick-by-you-no-matter-what, the we-know-and-accept-each-others'-flaws... All the stuff that books and movies are built around? Right. That's why it's called fiction. Okaaaay. Unrealistic. Life doesn't work that way. People don't exist with the sole goal of being a good friend. A gazillion other factors come to play. lol. I get it.
The point of this? There is no point. (haha sorry, time, for wasting you) Just me procrastiblogging about how intangible friendship actually is. And how it means different things for different people.
Man I really shld've been studying ARA.
Me.
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