As the saying goes, there are friends who come from afar and are happy. With friends who fit in, we feel relaxed and happy, relieved when sad, and doubled when happy.
Time Magazine's contributing writer, Heiko Faller, met many of his friends at a new friend's wedding, and she noticed that the opportunities, experiences, and lengths of time they had become friends varied, but they all had wonderful friendships.
This made Heiko feel wonderful, sparked her thinking about friendship, and then came up with the idea of creating on the theme of friendship, and then she and valerio Vidari, an illustrator friend who lives in Berlin, collaborated on the picture book "Who Do You Want to Be With for a Lifetime".
Large pictures across pages, paired with simple text, present the appearance of friendship and sincerity in an intuitive and expressive and infectious way.
01 The beginning of a friendship is a chemical reaction
Have you ever thought about a question, why would your friends become your friends?
We have met many, many people in life, everyone comes and goes, most people just nod their heads, or just one side of the relationship, but a few people have become lifelong friends.
In the midst of a thousand worlds, it is a wonderful thing for two strangers to know each other and develop friendships.
Friendship can germinate at any time —
It can happen anywhere —
It could happen in any scenario —
How exactly did friendship begin?
Maybe a look, maybe a smile, maybe a story, maybe even a sudden unexplained good feeling...
The more similar the reactions of people who have just met to the same thing, that is, the more consistent the three views are often said, the more likely it is that two people will become friends, and the wonderful feeling is similar to a chemical reaction, and friendship will occur from then on.
02 Show your true self in friendship
There is a girl who loves to tinker with computers and has always seemed a little out of place in the circle of her life, but after meeting a group of tech geeks with the same hobbies, she has someone to share ideas and interests together, and the loneliness and loss that often accompany her have since disappeared.
Maria, a new mother, always has all kinds of strange ideas, often said to be noisy and unrealistic, but when swimming with her baby, she meets Rebecca, who always listens to herself quietly, and Maria no longer worries that no one can communicate with her.
People find that some of their less accepted traits can often be recognized in friendships.
Good friends can go swimming together in the middle of the night three times——
Do all kinds of things together, all kinds of things, and everyone is crazy about it—
In the face of true friendship, we do not need to deliberately maintain the image, we can be confident and bold to be ourselves.
Anyway, friends know their shortcomings or oddities, but they never cast strange eyes.
In the eyes of real friends, your flaws may actually make you look cool.
We can talk to our friends tirelessly all night long—
Traveling together, learning, trying new things together, understanding the world together, finding yourself——
We show our truest selves in friendship.
03 Maintain and water friendship
Sometimes we will also be lost, and the friends who once had nothing to say gradually come out of our lives, even if they are deliberately invited, they are speechless.
Once a candlelight night talk, now can not slide to the same track again.
Why do former friends gradually become strangers?
Maybe we're just too different —
Maybe it's finding new friends, or losing interest in meeting —
We became friends because of the chemistry we had when we first met, but to maintain a relationship we needed to take time to overcome obstacles, maintain and water friendships.
Maybe one day, good friends who have not been seen for many years will meet again, and maybe you can go to a friend's house to rub rice.
Maybe it's not as intimate as it was then, but there has always been a place in the soft heart, and that's friendship.
epilogue
In the picture book "Who You Want to Be With For a Lifetime" with friends, Heiko Faller presents the scene of getting along with friends, and with the passage of time, some friends forget each other, some friendships sublimate into love, and some friendships fortunately last a lifetime.
That indescribable and cherished feeling is integrated into simple but deeply rooted sentences, although everyone has a different life trajectory, but perhaps everyone can glimpse their friendship in this picture book.
Respect all friendships in the world, and may everyone have the company of close friends.
THE END
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