True Friendship! And what it ought to, but seldom really means!

By Stanley Collymore

Real friendship basically has 

nothing whatsoever to do 

with what the recipient 

of it either gets, or really expects to 

obtain, from generally participating 

in such a relationship, but crucially 

in essence is actually about giving 

one’s self crucially wholeheartedly 

and honestly as well as effectively 

distinctly obviously and manifestly 

likewise, significantly committedly 

too to that actual relationship that 

most expectantly has freely been 

engaged in, perfectly thoughtfully 

as well as faithfully, and naturally

too effectively uncompromisingly. 

However, such a friendship 

doesn’t entail turning an 

intentional blind eye 

to the faults: self-induced or literally 

clearly malevolently encouraged by 

others, evidently obviously, relative 

to this particular person; knowingly 

lying for them or scandalously and 

rather immorally making false and 

naturally unsubstantiated excuses 

for that individual literally because 

you so slavishly, and irresponsibly

just regard yourself as their friend. 

Which actually means that 

while being, morally and 

likewise commendably, 

supportive as best, as you essentially

rather honourably can in that friend’s 

genuine hour of need; self-evidently 

that friendship or its continuance of 

it with that person doesn’t mean or 

ought ever to entail that you as an 

individual in your own actual right 

should, under any circumstances 

whether voluntarily, or coercively 

dispense, with your own evident 

human morality; crucial integrity 

and personal dignity, only to be 

wholly or otherwise partially so 

subservient to some individual

friend's entrenched immorality.

(C) Stanley V. Collymore

24 April 2023. 

Author's Remarks: 

Being able to live with myself is one of the greatest gifts that I can and have bequeathed to myself and were this to be ever sullied would undoubtedly make me a mere shadow of the person that I know I am. I'm not perfect nor do I profess to be, but my Bajan upbringing has firmly instilled in me certain characteristics of life that would never ever be contemplated by me because se they're so alien to me. But on close examination it’s each to their own, I guess!