Friendship By C. S. Lewis-Least Necessary Love

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Friendship
C.S. Lewis believes that friendships are built on commonality. However; if you begin to see that the person you are trying to build a friendship with don’t have the same similarities as you do then you begin to see that there will be no friendship amongst the two of you. C.S. Lewis says that the foundation of the friendship becomes difficult because, “friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." …show more content…

Many people state that they “want friends” but never can’t make them. In Friendship - The Least Necessary Love they make a valid point, which states, “Do you see the same truth? would be "I see nothing and I don 't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise—though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travelers.” The second difficult which is attitude comes into play when distrust happens. Distrust in friendships happens when individuals become isolated. They begin to notice that they don’t share the same similarities between each other and they start to break off into groups. C.S. Lewis says, “There is the attitude of the majority towards all circles of close Friends. Every name they give such a circle is more or less derogatory. It is at best a "set"; lucky if not a coterie, a "gang," a "little senate," or a "mutual admiration society." Those who in their own lives know only Affection, Companionship and Eros, suspect Friends to be "stuck-up prigs who think themselves too good for us." Of course this is the voice of Envy. But Envy always brings the truest charge, or the charge nearest to the truth, that she can think up; it hurts more. This charge, therefore, will have …show more content…

C.S. Lewis says, “Friendship is—in a sense not at all derogatory to it—the least natural of loves; the least instinctive, organic, biological, gregarious and necessary. It has least commerce with our nerves: there is nothing throaty about it; nothing that quickens the pulse or turns you red and pale. It is essentially between individuals; the moment two men are friends they have in some degree drawn apart together from the herd. Without Eros none of us would have been begotten and without Affection none of us would have been reared; but we can live and breed without Friends.” As stated before you have to know yourself and truths. Without knowing yourself and truths you create non-natural

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