By Ariella Neumann

Times are a changing and it can seem this ship is flying at half-mast. However, step a little closer… a little closer… come on… closer some more … BOO – things aren’t always exactly as they seem.

It happened that one day T awoke to find not a peep from me on her phone. Usually there are numerous voicemails and missed calls from my side of the port, whilst I eagerly await the rising of the rest of the world. Then of course, just when you thought there could be no more… another phone call, because in all my messages I have in fact, forgotten to address the issue I had originally wanted to call for. Actually sometimes this can take me days to achieve – I get side tracked really easily. Rainbows – what? Though we saw the looming horizon neither of us was prepared or really comprehending the inevitable separation.

So now with our flags flying at half-mast, how are we going to measure our sails? This is where the quantitative Vs qualitative theory comes into play. I salute with utmost erectness that this is not a comparative study of how to measure the worldliness of a friendship but simply a statement – you’re either one or the other.

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