I've had friendships persist, and friendships end. I've even had friendships spend a long time dormant - in a sort of pupal stage - before emerging as something totally new.
David Whyte wrote something beautiful about friendship some years ago, and I think you might enjoy it:
“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement - neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness. The privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another. To have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
I've had friendships persist, and friendships end. I've even had friendships spend a long time dormant - in a sort of pupal stage - before emerging as something totally new.
David Whyte wrote something beautiful about friendship some years ago, and I think you might enjoy it:
“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement - neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness. The privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another. To have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
- David Whyte