Friendships.

Just think of how many friends you have had, and still have. I mean friends not acquaintances. A long list can be drawn up parallel to our stages of development: childhood friends, teenage friends and adult friends. Friends for keeps and friends for convenience.

The list is endless.

Friends may sometimes be likened to a picture and its frame, or to the pedestal and the statue it carries. The frame in the former is chosen to honour the presence and the stature of the picture it engulfs. It embellishes the colours within with awe and radiates an impact on the viewers. Similarly, the statue mounted on a pedestal fills the spectators with reverence and appreciation.

Are friends likened to frames and pedestals or to portraits and statues ?

Friends are likened to both. One must go to the end of the world to unearth a befitting frame for the portrait of one's best friend. It must be gilted, precious, solid mahagony, impressive. In this way the best elements of the portrait come out splendidly. In like manner, to mount one's best friend on a pedestal, it must be marbled, pure, lofty and imposing.

But, alas! How many times does it become necessary to alter both the frame and the supporting base adorning our pictures and statues. If the change is an improvement, all well and good. But if it is an esteem lowering exercise, it is necessarily regrettable.

Perhaps, that is why we often like to say that the dog is man's best friend. It would be a problem to find befitting frames and pedestals for all our dog pets!


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