When I was younger it was said that one is lucky to find one person to love in one’s lifetime and equally lucky to have two good friends to trust. it is few and in I was struck by the way friendships are working on the Internet and how social network sites promote ‘friends’, which are actually little more than networking.
But the little more is so interesting. the sharing of life’s small experiences. One does not expect the depths of close friends in terms of time spent with each other face-to-face but one learns na good deal about someone on the other side of the world or even in a distant city or town whom one might not have expected to meet in one’s daily routine.
We share pictures, names of family, knowledge of foreign politics, lifestyles: it is all a little bit like reality TV without the hype. And some of these meetings do become good friends, they visit and call, send birthday cards and enjoy our company.
There is after all no set path to how we find friends. Sometimes people will tell you good freinds do not even have to be human. They just have to be there.