Tyler Shewbert’s Syncretic Stoicism: Friendship

A friendship will fail without my active participation. I have circles to my personal relationships: Blood family, those I love who are not family, friends, acquaintances, and those I do not know. For the first two categories, I feel a different bond. This is an timeless bond. I have moved several times in my life and developed new relationships in every location. In each location, I have developed relationships that exist in the second category, men and women who I feel a platonic love towards, whose transgressions I can forgive. These are the people who I might now have talked to for years but can start up a conversation with like there had never been a gulf of time. To me, that is a different category from friendship, which is someone who I may bond with in a time and place, but after relocation there is not interest in maintaining this relationship.

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