friendship

I once read a joke about friendship

A: What ship wouldn't sink forever?
B: Titanic?
A: Naw..... it's friendship.

well, for me all ships are destined to sink, including friendship.
once upon a time, there are two travelers who travel around the world by boat. they stock pile all the necessary equipment and supply for the journey. they are A and B. A are very careful in consuming the supplies, while B are not. this is due to their different background. this become no problem at all since the proportion of the supplies also determine that A only have 10% of B's. however, B are taking a little of A's during the journey although B also share his supplies. to cut the story short, A's supplies have been depleted in middle way, since the 10% resource consumed by 2 people. knowing this, B begin to think that there is nothing s/he can get anymore from A, and s/he kick A from the boat.

a tragic story, isn't it? but that is what I think about friendship.
you miss one letter of "r", it will become fiend-ship instead.
you omit "n", it will be fried-ship.
scary, isn't it? but the fortunate news is that, there is no "friend" at all. you don't know what they are doing behind you, what they are planning to do to you or what they are really think of you. Right?
there are always two ways of thinking, anyway. negative or positive. you may say that friend will always do positive to you. "IT'S NOT TRUE!" I may say. there no such thing as free lunch and thus no such things as friends. they are just some "strangers" whose name and other identity you are accidentally know, but in the end they are your competitors who are pursuing the same goal as you, even sacrifice you in the middle way.

as the illustration of unsinkable ship, there is no such ship that needs no stop at all. all ship will have to go to a destination or transit at some ports to replenish the supplies. even some ship will never return since they are attacked by pirates, natural disaster like storms and so on. thus friendship is not unsinkable and friend will someday lost its "r" or "n".