F.R.I.E.N.D.S

I read somewhere that friends - are just associates that come together for a common interest. Say, playing soccer or watching movies or whatever. You will find different friends in different areas of your interests. You might get attached to them over time, but in the end, they are still merely associates that came together for a common interest. The day you find yourself growing out of that particular interest is the day you lose that particular friend. Maybe not immediately, but they'll fade from your life eventually. No matter how close you think you are to them. So they claim. Seriously, i did not buy that idea. Or i maybe i just did not want to admit to it. Either way, it's bothering me.

I used to dabble with games alot. In fact, you could say i lived and breathed games once. In the recent year or so thou, i did not "game" as much as i used to. Scarcely would be a more appropriate word. I guess i just don't enjoy them as much as i used to. (I never dreamed such a day would come, but so it did and here i am.) And along with it, i must say, i lost some of my closest friends. Those that i spent as much time as i did with my games, or rather with my games. Somehow, i find it harder and harder to "connect" with them these days. Our conversations became mere superficial dialogues. And our yearning to even start that conversion became rather reluctant. I am utterly disgusted. At myself. At them. At the thought of us, being mere associates that came together for a common interest. Surely there is more to that than friendship, no?

A friend should be someone who walks beside me through my journey in life, someone whom i can connect with to a significant level. A level where interests could hold no ground. Do i have friends like so? Maybe. Maybe not. Time shall tell.