Friendship has a deep side to look at as it goes beyond just mingling with 2 or more people, going around together or simply doing things together.
Right before this era, we mostly belief in associating with people physically and creating bonds with those we select to be in our circle as friends. We go to each other's houses, and this kind of made me remember how we lived our lives as a child, creating memories and moments with other children.
I will say making and having real physical friends back then was an emulation from the adults around us starting from our parents and we could see how deeply and interesting their mode of friendships are towards one another. It was a beautiful one. I remember my dad with his several plans for us visiting his best friend to spend our holiday and his best friend doing the same as well and this kind of established the love between both families.
However, this doesn't mean that these physical friendships do not have its other side and ugly part as betrayals seems to be the most alarming part of it. Someone you've so much relied on who ends up showing up as a frenemy who digs a pit for you, covered with a rug so you could fall into or backstab you in a way that you might take a while before rising back if at all you have the chance to.
It made me remember three best friends who came to Lagos from one of the southwest state to work and at the end of the day the remains of the body of one of them was found in a suckaway, being used for ritual by the two other friends. That's how bad friends can be.
Why did I have to go through all of that explanation on physical friends? It is to let us know that physical friends wasn't perfect or close to perfect in the first place. The invention of technology brought new phase to friendship and I will say it frankly that the true and genuine friends people could not get in real life were gotten from the internet and I am a living witness to that.
I remember sharing a story about a friend of mine whom we've never seen ourselves since 2012 and has been such a great friend to me and me to him. Not that we didn't wanna see but then life has its way of transferring omus here and there and then we kind of feel comfortable for now with it as it doesn't even seem like we've never seen for once before.
Truly, making friends online and peradventure finding the good ones might have made it hard for us to really connect with people like in the days of old, going to houses or stuffs like that and truthfully, where is the time anymore as everyone is busy with lives but still, some still upgrade their virtual friends to meeting physically and extend their friendship from there.
For me I feel like friends can be made from anywhere as long as it's the right one and making it online only made it better and not overriding the predecessor of physical friendships. You missed your friends? You can easily pick up your phone and make a call either voice or video if the time to meet physically is not yet feasible.
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