Tag: Friendships

Of Friendships and Goodbyes

It’s now four weeks (one month) since I packed my bags — suitcases if we are being detailed, said goodbye to my family and friends and moved to a new country to study for a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Although I had a year to plan and was excited about the move, I still fou...

How to Accept Circumstantial Friendships

With full transparency up front, I genuinely thought I may have made this term up but research has proved me quite wrong! Circumstantial friendships are defined as “friends by circumstance, and when circumstances change, the friendship ends.” This might be due to physical or...

Nietzsche on ‘undesirable’ friendships

It may seem rather strange to be reading Nietzche for insights into friendships, given his limits in maintaining them. However, it would be entirely unwarranted to assume that if he was failing at friendships, he was also incapable of them. So, what is friendship? Or what isn’t friendship? ...