daily writing prompt #2
I have always said that a friend will help you bury the body, make you a cup of tea, and then ask questions.
But my ethos of friendship is far more complicated than that. I truly believe in loving the whole person. Sure, the smile and their ability to make you laugh, the perfect person to get drunk with, and the only one you would trust with those little secrets that you tell nobody else. Then all the annoying little ways that drive you crazy, they are included and embraced within the zone of this friendship.
Because what are they without those? A perfect, clean, sensible version of themselves wouldn’t do at all. Sanitised and tidy and sensible is not what you signed up for at all.
You like their weakness for chocolate because that shows they are human and can be bribed. Being late and arriving in a flurry of themselves and a sense of apology but not really actually apologising because we all know what I am like.
Being easily distracted and always feeling you have to fight to get his focus away from other shinier people annoys and delights and keeps things interesting.
Her ability to argue with irrepressible illogical nonsense that makes sense to her is what makes her so fun to be around, and letting her win the squabble, what harm does it do, and she always likes to win.
He will drink too much because he always will, and he won’t have any money, and he will need food as well, but if that is the price of him being in your orbit for a short time, then you would pay double because he is worth it and more.
If you love the person, you want all of them, not just the good bits, because the light and the shadow are where the soul is, and who are any of us without a soul?
a blog less ordinary 