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Let's talk about friendship and how awesome it is.

This could be misunderstood, so please bear with me.

Maybe you'll have a different take on it that's fine i was enjoying

being with a friend yesterday and we talked about how we how awesome it is we had this rare

time when guys don't normally do this where we actually talked about our friendship

i don't know if i've ever done that but it just dawned on us both the same time.

Like, you know what's awesome about this?

He had just texted me five minutes beforehand.

Like, hey, you want to get together?

Yep, we got our dogs together.

We were just sitting there.

You know what's awesome about this?

We don't have any plans for anything.

That is nice.

It's what I called non-aspirational friendship. Like, we're not starting a thing.

We're not trying to go, hey, let's do this, let's do that.

We don't have, it's just, it's all about right here right now.

Let's laugh about this.

And that's it.

And it's not that aspiring towards something isn't wonderful, but there's something about a deep friendship that is in and of itself worth having. So often it starts with,

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