Friendship is a subdivision of faith. Faith in another person, in her love for you, in her integrity, in knowing that she would never hurt you. Shatter the faith, shatter the trust, and you shatter the friendship. Something fractured will never set perfectly straight again. Something once broken will break again.
Friendship is also a two-way street.
It's giving and accepting, an unspoken mutual exchange. It's trust, both at once tenuous and fragile. The wonder of it all is that friendships happen, miraculously, to ordinary people, like you and me. People drop their guards, give in to trust, and find themselves sharing their truths with another person. People drop their selfishnesses, and come to ca re for another, deeply and intensely.