Leviathan

Friendship as higher-class love

"Friendship is a love that never dies" — Mario Quintana

We deeply depend on each other since the beginning of mankind. The meaning behind getting together and later constitute our contemporary society is indispensable to the prosperity of the species; we worship and need socialising. And even more important, we need to share our lives with our loved and trusted ones.

I always define friendship as the most pure way of loving. While in a lot of other types of relationships we look for something further than the simple mutual care, any other kind of interest is vanished on a real friendship. It’s affection’s most naive form, deeply connected with how we interpret the world around us. Choosing a mate is turning to yourself and saying some fraction of your life’s better with that person. It's knowing how to maintain that relation.

On nowadays —which we are surrounded by uncountable ‘social-online-relations-ish’ websites were we can laugh of unknown people’s jokes—, friendship seems to not lose space to cold and non-effectual relations, but getting adapted to this new way of seeing the world. Today we no more depend on our closed social circle to relate, and interactions and superficial friends seem to be taking a lotta of space on society.

We lost the ability of hour-long talks, of laughing until forgetting the motive of joy. We chose living each day more reclused. In a period where loneliness’s one of the world’s biggest enemy, sounds paradoxical having so many names on our Facebook profiles, and yet not recognising one single friend in there.

Nothing will overcome a good ol’ friendship. There’s nothing more human than complete trust on someone. No emoticon replaces the truthiness behind a friend’s real smile, and probably the earth would not be the same without our stories and laughs being shared.