Friendship Criterion
When looking around at the vast expanse of opportunities to make friendship, many start with innocuous ones during childhood. After having developed into the adults they are, people start ignoring friendships with strangers. The friendship criterion that was naive and unassuming, blossoms into an investment to some or a shoulder to rely on. Nonetheless, the one I developed is for friends to fit into an all-weather category. There was a person from our extended family who used to be a long distant friend. Slowly, I found that he was aloof but helped our family unit in times of need. But, after a storm broke out between our emotional strongholds, he started to part ways and side with his own folks. This lasted till I built a reputation in the society and he retreated from his questionable and nagging ways. Though his antics became greatly less severe and moved on to extending a warm gesture to me, I ignored. What are friends for if they do not fit a simple criterion like this? The