Around this time one year ago…
I posted an excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson and wanted to re-post it before the month of January ends. No one quotation has helped me as tremendously in conceptualizing and understanding the true nature of friendship.
“Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep, by a word or a look, his real sympathy. I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease an instant to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very one. Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which, beneath these disparities, unites them.”
- Excerpt from “Friendship” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841
I also have to note that tumblr needs a jump to page feature. Badly. Someone please point me to the right direction if there’s something of the sort.
3rd post on Flying Lotus.
Information has never been more free; this constitutes the perfect revolution.
“I have to everyday stop and say, ‘Okay, remember why you love this. Remember why you love this.’ Then, do it.”
- Flying Lotus (in the interview two posts down)
