Friendship, now and then.

Friendship then resembled empty Starbucks containers left discarded in the wake of equally vacant smiles and laughter. I never knew what to keep and what to leave behind. It took trials, errors, misconceptions, mistakes before I realised that cliches exist and that you really do have to discover your real friends (empty platitudes I learnt to mean so much more).

Friendship now is settled for the most part, like the sedimentary spices sinking to the bottom of a chai latte (smooth, soothing, dependable).

*this piece refers to this conversation I had with an amazing friend