Friendship
Playing on the monkey bars It seemed so simple Now almost adults It seems lost Friendship. It seems so simple, but it doesn’t come so easily. While people can make friends instantly over the internet, many of us are still struggling with friendship. We hide our deepest insecurities from those we call our “best friends.” We continue befriending those who talk behind our backs, those that deserve our attention. Why? While the human conscience has grown increasingly robust and moral standards are constantly being risen, it seems as though we’ve grown soft. What good are friends that we can’t be 100% honest with? Friendship, defined by the American Psychological Association, is “a voluntary relationship between two or more people that is relatively long-lasting and in which those involved tend to be concerned with meeting the others’ needs and interests as well as satisfying their own desires.” Wow, just reading that, I felt shivers. I cringed internally at how far removed this ...