FRIENDSHIP IS INEQUALITY

Putting friendship in a single word mathematically, I think it is inequality. Inequality is often taken to be an ugly word as it seems to be against the ideals we maintain in our minds. But I believe this word encapsulates the essence of friendship in the most beautiful manner possible. You disagree, let’s see.

How do you befriend anyone? Probably doing anything in favor of him or her in any form; be it help of any sort or a communication making other person feel better. You actually don’t expect anything in return i.e. there is a void on the so-called R.H.S. Not just this, how comfortable the person receiving this favor is; probably defines the extent of friendship. The lesser the acknowledgement of this favor the better is the friendship.

Just a second, I am not trying to present the red old wine in a new bottle but am trying to draw your attention towards its taste. There also exists a duality between the two. Friendship can cure literally anything and everything; it can act as the source and the sink for every human emotion that exists. Don’t you need something really big to encompass it? An equality remains true for some particular values of the variable while an inequality can hold for an inexhaustible set of values. Friendship is an inexact relationship; it is amorphous in nature just like an inequality. Any sort of a man who wants to make a friend will find a friend. Thus friendship as a function can accept a very larger set of values like inequality. On the other hand, love is exact. Every person may not get love in life. So in that fashion; I think I can take the liberty to call friendship as more beautiful than love because it is manifold magnanimous than love which happens to provide its charm to a fewer people; I’m sorry if I offend anyone. After all, beauty philosophically in this respect may better be read as magnanimity; something that provides pleasure to one and all. But often the edges and boundaries are not so clearly defined. Sometimes, beauty takes the more jubilant and random form. It gets eager to predate upon the general symmetry of life and creates anarchic spontaneity and vibrant patterns of happiness that is awfully tempting and alluring. This is what we call love.

Love and friendship are thus two different dimensions that comprise human happiness both equally beautiful but necessarily distinct in nature.