Friendship(s)

Friendships are strange and rarely last through life. I had childhood friends, college friends, army friends, banking friends. I haven't had much contact, if any, over the last many years with any of them.

I have friends in the various places we've lived. I have friends gained through geocaching. Once 3 of us were nearly inseparable and now we only talk occasionally.

I have Facebook friends I have never met. They've been important at one time or another but we've never had drinks and I only know what they want to share on FB. Some of my closest cyber friends came from Whole Wheat Radio chat. The chat is virtually gone now and so we occasionally talk through FB. One of those friends is actively alienating friends though I doubt he knows.

So friendships are strange and in the end only last while we have interests in common. BFF is a commonly used abbreviation but we should drop the last "F" or add a "?".

So why all the effort to have friends? Maybe I'll think about that and answer later.