Friendship

I am currently contemplating the notion of friendship. When one was growing up, the friends around were different. They had different needs and wants, plus their desires were usually simpler then. At times, we can spend the whole days and nights, chatting about tomorrow and also chatting like there's no tomorrow.

We were young.

We were free.

We were fun.

Then the wives came along, work load gets heavier and later the kids happened.

Then there's responsibility.

Then there's stress.

Then we become older.

Then we are not free anymore.

Then we are not fun anymore.

And that's when friendship starts dying and mistakes becomes harder to forgive because of the cruel world's harshness, we have to become cold ourselves or else we ourselves will get eaten alive. We then start developing our survival instincts to guide us within the system.

That's how the world works and it has a system; a survival system. Once we realise and understand the system, then the rest will be easy.

I used to ask myself, 'why is it so hard to be friends with everyone?' or 'why can't we work together?' or... 'why can't I trust you anymore?'

The sad answer to that is simple;

We simply grew up.