A Question and A Lesson
"There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests."I find this maxim relevant right now not only because for some uncanny reason, in the past week, I've heard it said in a movie thrice and read it in two separate newspaper columns; but more so because it materializes in my personal life.
My question then, is this: cannot friendship be a permanent interest?
Experience tells me that no matter how explosive schisms may develop in circles of friends (including football clubs), over time, damages are mended and broken pieces are reconstructed to make a stronger whole -- that will go through the same recurrent cycle. It's a sweet-and-sour equation of acidic word wars and sugar-coated apologies where the only unknown factors are duration and acceleration.
At this point in time, I wish to determine these specific factors by asking what kind of relationship they have with each other: does a faster acceleration equate with a shorter duration? To use physics, if I remember Mr. Ines' (LSM Physics Professor) lessons correctly, the answer is yes, the faster you go the less time it takes you to get to where you're going -- obviously! But physical truths and moral theories are two different subjects; and I'd be too demented to seriously consider applying physical mathematics to answer a moral question.
I wish King Solomon had been one of my teachers.
In retrospect, the experience of dealing with explosive schisms and stupid, grandstanding friends is but a comic relief in serious drinking sessions; it is not so while the experience is still developing -- it is sad, frustrating, and dangerously provoking.
"When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do." - William Blake -
