Original Post on Facebook Notes, 30 May 2010 at 15:36
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Real friendship takes time.
You meet people, strike a conversation and make the decision to interact with this particular person in the future. Out of convenience, you meet again, converse again, share more thoughts and relate to each other. After a few more meetings, a few more conversations, a few more shared thoughts, you make the decision to interact amidst inconvenience.
And then something goes terribly wrong and you realize that you are willing to stand by this person and you see that this person has made the decision to stand by you as well. Right then, the friendship is born and realized.
Just like a tattoo is given enough attention before the actual print is made; a genre is chosen, a concept is introduced, the details are scrutinized, an artist is trusted and, then, you actually make the decision to get the tattoo.
Depending on how tolerant for pain you are, friendship and tattoos may or may not hurt.
One's name gets imprinted in your heart and given part of your life, just like a tattoo is marked on your flesh and a allotted a space on your skin.
The impact of the friendship or tattoo is determined by how it was made and maintained. Over time, it can fade or become more striking. It may generate compliments or judgment from those who are able to take a view. It may pose problems or bliss.
Sadly, there are times that you realize that you have made a mistake in choosing the tattoo and in actually having it embossed on your skin.
There are enemies out of friends and certain misdeeds that create irreparable damage that can never be undone even with an existing apology.
And you make the hard decision to have it erased even when you know it can never be replaced; the details that you have created will then mean nothing, the extent of the investment will go to waste, the pain you put up with will be stripped off of significance and you will have to let go of the things you thought were important.
But you make the decision, even when you know and understand how much it will hurt, to remove the tattoo or the friend that you believe does not deserve a space on your flesh or a part of life... because only then can you move on to focus on maintaining the ones you believe deserve to be retained.
Keep only true friends, retain the best tattoos. ;)
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Real friendship takes time.
You meet people, strike a conversation and make the decision to interact with this particular person in the future. Out of convenience, you meet again, converse again, share more thoughts and relate to each other. After a few more meetings, a few more conversations, a few more shared thoughts, you make the decision to interact amidst inconvenience.
And then something goes terribly wrong and you realize that you are willing to stand by this person and you see that this person has made the decision to stand by you as well. Right then, the friendship is born and realized.
Just like a tattoo is given enough attention before the actual print is made; a genre is chosen, a concept is introduced, the details are scrutinized, an artist is trusted and, then, you actually make the decision to get the tattoo.
Depending on how tolerant for pain you are, friendship and tattoos may or may not hurt.
One's name gets imprinted in your heart and given part of your life, just like a tattoo is marked on your flesh and a allotted a space on your skin.
The impact of the friendship or tattoo is determined by how it was made and maintained. Over time, it can fade or become more striking. It may generate compliments or judgment from those who are able to take a view. It may pose problems or bliss.
Sadly, there are times that you realize that you have made a mistake in choosing the tattoo and in actually having it embossed on your skin.
There are enemies out of friends and certain misdeeds that create irreparable damage that can never be undone even with an existing apology.
And you make the hard decision to have it erased even when you know it can never be replaced; the details that you have created will then mean nothing, the extent of the investment will go to waste, the pain you put up with will be stripped off of significance and you will have to let go of the things you thought were important.
But you make the decision, even when you know and understand how much it will hurt, to remove the tattoo or the friend that you believe does not deserve a space on your flesh or a part of life... because only then can you move on to focus on maintaining the ones you believe deserve to be retained.
Keep only true friends, retain the best tattoos. ;)
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