Friends, friendship ~ words that are common to us ~ all of us, and we use them in our lives to identify individuals and relationships. We operationalize these in different ways, categorize people in life in those categories of friendships and for some they play a more important role than others. Yet we all have friends and maintain friendships. This term is used more loosely as sometimes it is used to describe everyone from an acquaintance to a romantic partner.
Some place more importance on friends than their significant others, for some significant others are the closest of friends.
Historically the intensity and depth of feeling about a best friendship have been expressed in terms of mingling and blending of essenses between two people. Such friendship is often depicted as more important than love.
Ofcourse there are various levels or types of friendships such as situational friendships, emotional friendships, inspirational friendships, and casual friendships. Although at some level, an attempt to quantify, measure, assess, categorize, rationalize or simply speak of friendship might ironically contradict its very appeal -- that is an emotional connection with another person.
Can a man and woman be close friends, then, really close friends, without having any sexual connotations to their interactions? And if so, why does society not be able to accept that relationship for what it is?
5 comments:
Yes.A man and a woman can b close/really close friens-as long as they r honest about it.
I'v alwez found it really silly to b wonderin about th society.Th 'wht wud ppl say' phenomenon.Duznt tek us newhere.They rnt ever by our side/helpin us thru tuff times-they'd rather b th ones rubbin it in. N durin our happy times, they'd b th ones tryin their best to find fault and make us sad sumhow-only then can hey feel a bit happier about their own megre lives.
Sorry,if i'm comin out too strong. Bt i'v alwez found 'society', 'ppl' n such things r full or crap!
Ppl who really matter to us,shud b our only consideration-family,close friens etc. N if they cnt understnd u in spite of ur best efforts at makin them undrerstand- let it b.Prolly they werent ever meant to b a part of tht aspect of ur personality.
P.S.I hope i ws clear enuff here.TC...S m i l e
...Its only one life we've all got. 9 lives n stuff-no one cn guarantee rite? Then why cnt we live tht to th fullest n do whtever al v really wnt to do? - as long as we r honest with ourselves- as long as we're sure we want to do it - n as long as we're not hurting anyone in neway.
I'v alwez felt tht, this is all tht matters.
TC dearie. N remember, life is too beauiful to e wasted in worries! {hugs}...S m i l e
well to answer your question...yes they can be friends. though why is it hard for society general...i've no clue. btw how are you? your posts look a bit "burdened". Or maybe just more candid. i dunno. will try calling on weekend. tc. - Khotta
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Hi,Wandy..another thoughtful post from u.Yes,Friendship is a word that has wide connotations,right from a simple friend to a romantic liaison to,as they say in Bollywood'We're just good friends'.Reg. the query of whether a man and a woman can be close friends,without sexual connotations to their interactions...yes,they can..provided they're not so sensitive that they get hurt when tongues of jealous people around begin wagging. I always say' God has given people tongues,so they will always wag'.Right?
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