Ramble for January 25, 2026 the meaning of true friendship
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Leftist Point of View
Meg
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Meg
You do have a very valid point. I just feel divided on the matter. Like the previous person said there are no true Ferencz these days because you can’t show the hospital and stuff. I have so many stories I could tell you where I felt, I was always the giver in the friendship because Everyone else was just taking my resources since they were excited. Like you said you had someone telling you you weren’t a genuine friend. I don’t know guys I’m still learning and these are challenging questions for a reason but they’re good. But I’ve always struggled for such a long time. Am I being a good enough friend? Am I the blind one who is just a burden? Do I care enough? Am I perfect enough? Should I even have friends? I mean conditional friendship seems to be something that’s coming up a lot in here. Anyway, I had this one friend who seemed to me for lack of a better word to be very conditional almost overly wise or careful in her friendship. And then she sent me an email at one point and she said friends are like balloons, you need to hold onto them or they’re going to blow away. And I always was like who is keeping the score here? I don’t know I mean, you’ve gotta think about it in both ways. I mean she could’ve gotten very lonely, but then talk about it. Don’t just be like we are not friends because you don’t care about me. I really do value my friendships and there is a friend that comes to mine. We have also been friends for 20 years, we haven’t always talked to each other occasionally we’ve disagreed. But we always come back to each other. Even though I’m changing, it would take a lot for me to just cut her off as my friend. But I still do believe that it’s OK to have a lot of friendships that are stumps or branches or other parts of trees as well. I managed to talk to my mom about this Because your post inspired me to do that. I have a lot of friends they won’t maybe be true blue, best friends. But they are wonderful friends nonetheless. Friends that like the same food you like, friends that can laugh and tell jokes. Sure sure there are different kinds of friends sure including those ones. I just hope we all can recognize that. This is such a heavy topic to me. Thanks for everyone’s perspectives. Please choose your friends wisely but also if you let them choose you and it works out give it a chance. Don’t throw friends away too quickly.
Sunny Stabler
Julio
Déjà Brew Diane
George Earl
Meg
Valari Rios
hope I'm one of the roots, because I ain't goin nowhere lol💜