elgeeko’s blog

Relationships strike a complicated balance between three layers: image (that which we selfishly hope to project), knowledge (that which we emanate), and vulnerability (that which we protect). We all wear masks in different social situations; psychology argues we do so even to ourselves. Somewhere in this mix falls friendship - the intersection of image (selfishness), knowledge (existence), and vulnerability (dreams).

Friendship, I argue, is a perpetual and multidimensional ascension through these layers. One can never know a person too well; else the nature of the self would no longer be mystery. I believe the human psyche is sufficiently complicated that if a person were to be captured in stillness and studied, the course would last a lifetime. But the clock is ticking, the sun sets, and we change seemingly at the moments in which we were closest to mastering these now deprecated snapshots.