Friendship

Friendship is something i can't really explain. I can try, but i don't think anyone can truly say what it is. It is the bond between people, that keeps them around each other. You may like them or not, but there can still be a friendship. I have hated a good deal of people that i consider friends anyway. I as well as pretty much everyone i know, prefer the company of someone regardless of who they are/how they act, over being alone. Of course everyone needs some alone time, but that can't last... we can't do anything forever, balance is the key... but i digress. To me someone who has a sense of humor and can take constant sarcasm and insults regardless of their intensity is a person I'd befriend. Someone who is not radically supportive in anything is a aspect i admire and enjoy. I hate having to censor myself in front of people because they can't take something that "offends" them/their beliefs. Trust isn't a huge deal for me. I find that kind of odd that i think like that heh..... I can pretty much forgive a friend for anything (up to a certain point.... there is always an exception to everything say)... I don't really open up to friends, even my best friends, because they are smart enough to notice the real me. I don't bother burdening them with any secrets I have, because with friends i enjoy escaping from problems, not creating them. It may be foolish, and Emerson disagrees with escaping reality, but to me that is what friends are for.... thats my version of them "picking me up when i'm down" just living in the momemt.... all life is is a series of moments, live in them....

As for the friendship experiment, i did it outside of school friends, as they would simply go "oh your doing the experiment ok" and would pretty much make it pointless..... I found it pretty pointless and didn't accomplish anything, because my friends just laughed off every "true" thing i pointed out. Perhaps the fact that me and my buds always screw around and make jokes about pretty much anything; each other, random people, animals, tv, you name it we've made fun of it.... so whatever we say to eachother is shrugged off.... we can take virtually anything we say to eachother... (example) one of my friends got expelled near the end of last year, and we poked fun at him about it for a good deal, yet he is still our friend and we hang out a lot.
Also, i don't think anyone can truly compare to the Emersonian friend. It seems imposible to me, especially if we are trying to immitate it. Also its hypocritcal that we are deceiving our friends trying to be an Emersonian friend instead of the friend and person we truly are...