Friendship

   So what are these people that we call friends? I find it amazing the wide plethora of different people I know that I call a friend. How is it that even though I've known someone for over 10 years I only know them on a shallow basis of "What's up?!", "Its been so long!", "Ok see ya next time!" Those tiny interactions that never break a shallow surface of what people still will call a "friendship", yet I can have only known someone for two weeks and suddenly I know them on a much deeper level, there's a connection, I understand where this person is coming from, yet I also call this person "friend"?  I have two incredibly close friends from High school. One I knew since 3rd grade, the other I knew since 7th. I am just as good of friends with the one I've known shorter and the longer. How is that? Is there a point where something clicks in a friendship? One thing I know for sure, and one thing that is becoming very evidently clear for me here at college is that time most definitely DOES NOT equal friendship. And I don't think there's some equation for friendship either. I think it's just one of those great human mysteries that no matter how hard, at least for me, you try, it's not going to be something that will be pinpointed or figured out. It's a super weird human phenomenon where you'll either click with someone, or you don't. Because I'm not sure you can be friends with everyone, because everyone is different everywhere you go in some way or another, and eventually you won't click with someone. And that's just how it is. Friendship is a super super strange thing to me, and through writing this I've kinda realized that the term "friendship" is so freaking broad that it just makes figuring out what it means so much more difficult. It's like how we overuse the word "love" in English, eventually it doesn't mean as much anymore.
   Friendship: it's worth thinking about.