Ten

you can exist outside of time.

there are two ways: in love and in friendship. these are the only two experiences that transcend the limits of time because they are or they aren’t. it’s love or it’s not. they are your friend or they are not.

this is because love and friendship are a type of recognition. i recognize that what i feel for you is love. i recognize you as a friend. when you know, you know. it’s the same feeling every time. it’s the same version of you that it brings out, each time. the recognition puts them in the category. love and friendship last forever.

how can this be true? because once it has existed in time, it always exists. and even if the person leaves, what you felt cannot die. love and friendship are in you to be brought out by others, old or new. you’ll always have loved them even if they are gone. nothing can take away that roadtrip or that conversation that unmasked the friend who came to you once as a stranger.