Question about friendship

[Luken]

Bunch of anti-social and out of touch nikkas in here

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

Friends are for little kids.

real

 

[Ian Ahbaa f/ Area51]

Breh, not everybody has the same walking path. Some members are not even close to their families or in some cases don't have a family at all (mother, close uncle, grandfather, grandmother, and other close relatives dying within a decade). The hand full of friends either distanced or it's dap and leave. Extended family and etc is laughable when there's foolishness involved. Maybe just maybe folks are not as lucky outside the net. The Coli may be full of bitter incels, armchair revolutionaries, weirdos, walking Great Value Sports Almanacs, self hating fellows, and agents, but beyond these folks there's people that are more fam than anybody I know outside of the web. Let folks live dude

I hear you. But y'all gotta get out. You could die today & nobody on the coli would even know.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I hear you. But y'all gotta get out. You could die today & nobody on the coli would even know.

on the real, I rather be anonymous than the fake tears. I'm over the days of wanting acknowledgement when I know what I done for this world and etc. But that's another story/thread beyond what OP is stating in the thread

 

[Commish]

As we get older, the word “friends” & “friendship” seems funny to me. For example. My co-worker says yeah my friend is the head of partnerships at Airbnb or my friend works at NBC or my friend is an exec at Disney”. So I’m sitting there like... are these people really your friends? Or are you friends with them because of their jobs? Or vice versa.

So this just has me thinking, is this what adult friendships comes to? What you can do for one another? What happened to being cool with one another just off the strength.

Edit: I don’t have any friends tbh. Everyone drifted. But I don’t have a problem creating convos. People just don’t stick.

OP..

Friendship means different things to different people. Some people don’t distinguish between an acquaintance, associate and a friend when addressing people they know to other people.

As you know, there are levels to how people interact with others. I may call someone from work or rather refer to someone from work as a work buddy or may even say that I am “chummy” with someone from work, which may mean that me and said person has a “friendly” as well as amicable working relationship, but may not necessarily mean that we are “ friends” per se..

I also may be “cool” with some people that I may know in passing, but cool could mean that we are simply not adversaries or enemies. We may simply be on a hi/bye basis and that’s it. Or we may briefly engage in discourse, but don’t really discuss anything deemed personal.

In reality, people may simply use the word “friend” to describe someone who may fall into any of the aforementioned categories w/o making distinctions on the type of relationship they may have with someone. Kind of like a shortcut, therefore you have to understand the context in which the word is being used to fully understand the type of relationship one may have with those they are mentioning during a conversation.

Lastly, I think that most people do NOT have a lot of friends, if we are going to go by what a true friend really means. But, some to many may feel that they do..

I know that I probably couldn’t count past my middle finger how many true to the game day one friends I have. That is just life. So, I understand why people get into relationships and marriages because people are supposed to take the place of those who were friends during their formative years.

I learned to watch who to call a friend. I also learn to accept whatever people position me within their friendship rank and file. It’s all good either way! Life goes on!

 

[Amor fati]

I've got about two friends maximum but they ain't close, the only friends that I generally have is my brothers and my mom, everybody else is an acquaintance including coworkers if any of my coworkers where to drop dead I wouldn't go to the funeral, I don't know them at all, even though they spew their personal life stories to me. At this point I've been on networking mode, I've been acquainting with people that I can get some something out of just recently I chopped it up with a photographer(Had my photos taken today) and met some Pinoy kid that plays basketball when I wanna play basketball I just holla at the kid. I'm gonna start going to trade shows and mixers.