A Cynical View of Things
"Best friends are forever"
Mel posted this on Facebook and it triggered a thought. Can this statement truly stand?
Maybe you really do intend to be best friends with a certain somebody and you truly intend for it to be forever. In that case, if it is based on your own feelings, then the sentence is fine.
But, if you're using this statement to identify and distinguish best friends from the regular ones, then it looks pretty grim. For one, "forever" is relative. What we know of as "forever" is, realistically, really just "up till now". The whole idea of "forever" suggest a never ending element to it, but the thing is, we're never certain if the feeling remains permanent, because, after all, the feelings aren't yours. So, if we cannot determine what "forever" is, until, of course, when you're dead, then we won't be able to distinguish who your best friends really are right?
How depressing things are.
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Mel posted this on Facebook and it triggered a thought. Can this statement truly stand?
Maybe you really do intend to be best friends with a certain somebody and you truly intend for it to be forever. In that case, if it is based on your own feelings, then the sentence is fine.
But, if you're using this statement to identify and distinguish best friends from the regular ones, then it looks pretty grim. For one, "forever" is relative. What we know of as "forever" is, realistically, really just "up till now". The whole idea of "forever" suggest a never ending element to it, but the thing is, we're never certain if the feeling remains permanent, because, after all, the feelings aren't yours. So, if we cannot determine what "forever" is, until, of course, when you're dead, then we won't be able to distinguish who your best friends really are right?
How depressing things are.
elson.out