Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they look up at each other and say, “Oh, there you are.”
I liked the Helle story! I think trying to dissect friendships and in particular a specific friendship takes a lot of guts and patience. We may misread other and vice versa. If both want to make the effort to make a friendship strong and work then it works. And I dream of visiting Milos too.
As someone who has always sought out friends of virtue, I felt seen and also had my awareness expanded while reading this piece. Thank you for sharing.
Responsive! That's who I'd like to be more of!!! But but but I really felt this piece re. So one, i hardly care about pleasure and utility in my friendships and it's only as an ameture adult that I'm realising how important that may be. And two, sometimes you're just different people y'know, like maybe the then you would not have recognised his "value" as a teen. You were q different person back then and so was he. And so I guess experience and time also plays a huge role here.
This is too real
This was beautifully written, thank you! I love the notion of misreading people; I think it's such an important trap to be aware of.
That frog is really me cracking me up xD
Also: nice effect with the repetition here: "I left the small town we lived in at 18, I left as soon as I could, the same week we graduated."
I liked the Helle story! I think trying to dissect friendships and in particular a specific friendship takes a lot of guts and patience. We may misread other and vice versa. If both want to make the effort to make a friendship strong and work then it works. And I dream of visiting Milos too.
As someone who has always sought out friends of virtue, I felt seen and also had my awareness expanded while reading this piece. Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful essay!
Responsive! That's who I'd like to be more of!!! But but but I really felt this piece re. So one, i hardly care about pleasure and utility in my friendships and it's only as an ameture adult that I'm realising how important that may be. And two, sometimes you're just different people y'know, like maybe the then you would not have recognised his "value" as a teen. You were q different person back then and so was he. And so I guess experience and time also plays a huge role here.
Thought provoking, excellent essay.
This is exquisite.
Bro never fails to cook
Very insightful piece, Henrik. Keep up the work. -s.
Beautiful piece!! Bravo!
This was such an exquisite read! Thank you so much