What does the word “friend” mean? That’s a profound question.
I looked it up in the dictionary and it said that a friend is someone you like and enjoy spending time with. This definition made me recall a joke my friend told me. “In a zoo, there was a very ugly and disgusting monkey and everyone would vomit after seeing it. One day, I went to visit the zoo and threw up after seeing the monkey. The other day, you went to the zoo and saw the monkey, the monkey threw up”. I wondered if I would get angry if this joke was told by someone else than my friend. I enjoyed being together with my friends and it did not matter even though the joke was somehow mockery.
Friends had made an important part in my life and I used to make fun of them. They too, made fun of me but we never got angry because our intentions were not to hurt other’s feelings. So, don’t take the jokes too seriously and just dismiss them with a laugh. However, there was another version of the definition for friend that once confused me a lot. It stated that friend is someone you can betray and get benefit from it. In such case, we should change friendship into “friendshit”. If you had this kind of friend who made friend with you just to use you, you really got to say “Shit!”
It is hard to know if you are having a friendshit or friendship, but the existence of the former doesn’t mean that you should distrust anybody. In most circumstances, friends are all real and important in our lives. Sometimes you could even tell them something that you felt uncomfortable to talk with your family members.
