A friend…

Odd odd question.  What qualities are important in a close friend?  It so depends.  There are a lot of ways of being and of having friends.   I come across old friends, close friends here.  I think of the time that’s gone and won’t come back.  I think of who matters and who doesn’t.  I rue those – the great majority – that are gone forever.  Those of us here are rats climbing back on the flotsam.  I’m here.  She’s here.  You’re here.

So who’s my friend?  In real life I have few if any friends.  I do not draw people.  I am too stuck up a the same time I’m inferior.  I’m that way on line and I have few if any friends on line.  I like to think of myself as special and I want you to be special too.  Not too special but special enough.  I want you special in ways that  lean toward love and words and embarrassments.  I want loyalty – like the Pres.  I don’t expect it though.  Loyalty is the hardest virtue.  We don’t get it, we don’t give it.  Yet we want it.

So that’s 2 things.

Specialness and loyalty.

There has to be a third thing.  There is always a third thing.  An internet connection?  A lot of dogs?  Shared Updike fandom?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Let’s call it the Unknown Third Thing.

Yes that will do it.

Specialness.

Loyalty.

The Unknown Third Thing.