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Originally Posted by Sanity Panda  It'd be silly for anyone to break up a perfectly good friendship just because we "moved further" ahead. Friendship needn't be about sharing similar values. |
You don't seem to buy into the idea that people change and grow at different rates. It isn't about different values; it's about different interests.
People who have "moved further" generally have their interests change. If their friends don't change interests with them, then eventually, they may have no more common ground. At that point, there is no reason for the friendship to last.
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Originally Posted by Sanity Panda it's almost as if people here are against the idea of lasting friendship. That friendship is only a temporary thing of moving around to people that resonate with you and dropping those who don't. |
Friendship is temporary. Just like life. We're all going to die, and all friendships will end, even if it takes death to sever it. Being able to accept that ends can and will come is important. Placing too much value on a "lasting friendship" before it has happened is foolish; focus on having a quality friendship, no matter how short.
A lasting friendship is not worthwhile if that great new person you met gets shot the next day. If the friendship was worthwhile, though, then there is something to cherish. No one should look back on their life and says, "Well, I lived for 700 years, but I got absolutely nothing done." The same goes for friendship.
Length is a nice-to-have, not a goal.