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It's hard to experience true friendship without shared adversity. I'm not using the word "true" thoughtlessly, it's just that there seems to be a common theme a
by Bakary 6y ago
It's hard to experience true friendship without shared adversity. I'm not using the word "true" thoughtlessly, it's just that there seems to be a common theme among the varied descriptions of absolutely intense camaraderie between blood brothers, soldiers, and so on that leads me to believe that most of what we experience as friendship is a diluted version of those bonds. In an industrial information based economy with social media, where most threats are about soulless boredom or withstanding the daily grind, it's even harder to form such bonds in any genuine way.
- agumonkey 6y agoThere's an article or two about war veterans not able to adjust back to society. The plot twist is not that they were too traumatized to be normal citizen again.. but that the average modern life is a never ending fog of hypocrisy compared to the intense life-or-death honesty of relationships in wars. They said they ever felt doubt on the field, everything is simple.