Well, I, for one, find so-called 'internet friends' very boring and useless. I used to have a few back in the day (a few years ago, when I was younger), but, eventually, I turned out to misinterpret them and simply not get acquanted properly. After that, I used to chat with some people I used to briefly know in person, before moving to another city and school. Neither that was good. Those people basically were far from what I would classify as friends and they didn't care for me either, but, because I liked them, I repeatedly tried to get closer, to no avail... In reality, I am plagued to meet someone nice and be forced to move away. I do believe friendship is possible, however. But now I have only a few, basically two people whom I have some contact with and we meet in person once in a year, because they live far away. When we met, circumtances turned out so, that either, in one case, I had to move away, either the person in question had to... But, even though I do believe friendship is possible, I can hardly imagine it, because, I think, a friend is a person, who is near, always here, you have a common activity, common interests, something deep. I did meet one person who was quite similar to me, equally strange and interesting, and I even fell in love with that one, but it didn't lead anyway... I don't think, that friendship is more intentional that love, actually. There is something you FEEL for a person, it might be sexual/romantic or just friendly, but it's not calculated, measured and weighted. It's like something accidental. So, I think, after all, it is possible. A nice story, regarding this is Hermann Hesse's 'Demian'.
01 Feb 2015, 11:27 pm
