Comments on: What Everybody Ought to Know About Friendship

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:30:18 +0000

@gal africana: Look at the bright side, we did have the sense knocked into us: I have never even contemplated shop lifting ever again. For some reason out of the many stories I had in my memory and imagination that was the one that came to mind and it kept persisting and so I put it down.

By nature I am like that, i.e. I just don’t follow people up unless I am organizing face to face meetings, but I think that is flawed because take away everything and all we have is each other and our planet: not the jobs, not the cars, not the accolades, it’ll just be us people, the creatures under heaven and earth and our world. So, I am thinking more and more that it’s important that we nurture an element of the human experience that is ultimately timeless.

By: Gal africana

Gal africana — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:30:04 +0000

*tongue in cheek * that IS a very bad example lol

I think I’m learning to work less and less at creating and maintaining friendships, people are free to come and go in my life…as I expect the same freedom from others.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:42:25 +0000

@M: I have spoken and will continue to speak about male-female relationships so often on this blog, that even I am relieved that I took the time to talk about gender neutral, platonic friendships.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:35:22 +0000

@Carol: You are very very welcome

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:48:45 +0000

Very good post tDA.Well I must go and show more love to my friends and stop taking most of them for granted.Thanks,have a friendly day too.

By: M

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:12:52 +0000

Interesting insights.

I thought you would veer into the issue of why men befriend women (based on the pic of the two friends on the bench) and vice versa … but I liked the way you treated the friendship issue without delving into the gender perspective.