There are some friendships that I value highly. Except, in these cases, I feel I have very little in common with the other person.
Allow me to elaborate. Both of us have a different background, meet in the same place, and have different ideas of ‘social’. Yet somehow, when we do something together e.g. go out for dinner or to an event, I feel that the differences disappear. And come the next day, we have gone our different ways, and the differences are highly apparent.
A way to know if this happens is if others ask of you, “How can these two be friends? They’re so different!”
Social interactions are so fluid; I seem to be attracted to people who are fundamentally different to me, yet I shy away from those who I can see elements of myself in.
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