Challenge
Can men and women ever really be friends?
One of the age-old questions plaguing prudish philosophers and sleazy housewives alike; a predicament which has puzzled us for as long as we've had eyes to see and hearts to beat; can you be friends with a person of the opposite sex whom you're attracted to? Go about answering it any way you like. Fiction or non-fiction. Poetry or Prose. I might as well tell you before-hand; there is no correct answer, only joyful suffering. (But of course, I'm very probably wrong in that assumption. It's trendy to be wrong nowadays. Wrong is the new right don't you know.)
Friendship can manifest from what initially started off as attraction; intention is what's important. Some can handle it and others can't and need to move on, but if their company offers you a sense of pleasure and fulfillment, stay, just be honest with yourself and with them. Friendship shouldn't be defined by gender, but a mutual sense of understanding and connection; sometimes it gets complicated by attraction, but when you allow yourself to feel your emotions and process all the messy and tangledness that is relationships I don't see why men and women can't be friends; just be honest and communicate and respect their boundaries and their wishes; no means no so stop looking for hidden meanings that simply aren't there.
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