Last week, Sylvia and I attended a gathering of my high school class.  It has been 61 years ago that we graduated, and now we meet each year.  Of the 60 plus grads, most of us are still alive.  A couple choose not to attend our gatherings and profess no interest in fellow classmates.

Interestingly, folks who were not close during our school days (daze) who were not particularly close, truly enjoy each other’s company now.  Talk is of children (some of whom are already retired), grands and great grands.  At least one has great great grands.  Catalogs of ailments, aches and pains are also compared.

On the way back home, my thoughts turned to the nature of friendship.  From here, it looks like the bonds are friendship are forged from matters held in common.  Those matters could be goals, achievements, experiences, commitments, etc.

Some of my younger friends talk of “doing life together.”  Perhaps that is, in fact, the very essence of friendship.

What is your view of friendship?