Friendship

This is an interesting and a difficult question "what is friendship?" I have had cause to think about it recently with my being off sick. There are those "so called" friends who have not even bothered to contact me even once in the 5 weeks I have been away. I might as well have died or just dropped off the face of the Earth. Yet no doubt when I return to work they will rush up and tell me how much they have missed me and are glad that I am back. In my book that is not real friendship.

Whenever I hear one of my friends is ill, I am the first to contact them to see how they are. That is friendship. Showing that you care and that that person matters to you. Being interested in that person, in their thoughts and actions, in what they do and have to say. I am on Facebook and have a lot of "friends" but I am under no illusion that that is what they all are. Out of 100 people there are but a handful, 5 or less that really care about me and vice versa. The others are people I am friendly with and it interests me to follow their lives as such.

So what am I looking for isn't easy but its something I came by naturally back in 1981. I was lucky in that we became friends as well as lovers and that doesn't happen often. I recall the time she was living in London and once again somehow I had majorly pissed her off. She turned up on my doorstep to talk to me about it as her best friend and not as her lover. That's what I want again. An unconditional friendship. That no matter what the other might do or say in this life (and lets face it we are bound to piss one another off at some point) it doesn't matter in the long run. We are there for each other in the good times and the bad. I want to know what is going on in your life, what you are thinking and feeling and to be able to share my thoughts and feelings with you knowing that neither of us will pre judge the other. To just be able to share stuff. The inane and the interesting. That's what I want from you and that's what I offer to you. Surely that is a win win situation for us both? How do you feel about the above then?