Friendship: My True Friendship

Friendship is not measured by how often two people spend time together, or by how much they have in common. It’s not defined by labeling someone your friend, or by being on your list on Facebook. True friendship is about compassion, about being able to tell yourself, honestly, that someone is your friend; regardless of how much time you spend with them. The relationship is built on deeply rooted psychological needs and desires. When someone is truly your friend, and you theirs, you know it and you don’t question it; it’s like a primal instinct. When all social factors are put aside, when vanity is excluded, and when you can truly be mature enough to be honest with yourself, only then can you see who your real friends are, and if you 're lucky,

I went on the first day it opened with my parents, as I was very young at the time. Evan Millett had the same idea, and it feels like it was from that day forward we started to see more of each other. We were in the same grade, had as similar of interests as elementary school kids need to get along, and we often found ourselves in the same place by coincidence. At the time, these facts lead me to believe that he was my best friends, however that was only an illusion of sorts, since at that age I wasn’t able to understand what true friendship was all about. I wasn’t mature enough to understand that a best friend is so much more that just being with each other a lot, there for, simply seeing each other so often, both at school and at the park, created the illusion. The problem was that in the beginning we rarely hung out with the intention of spending time together. We just became friends because it was a close fit, we only started to hang out with each other intentionally after we had done so so much by coincidence. Being so young, I was not even close to being able to comprehend why a relationship like this wasn’t genuine and neither was he, so for all intents and purposes, we were best friends in my