So whats a boy ta do!!???

When you ask someone to fly a kite with you and you have other intentions besides flying a kite, is that a lie? Do you like to be lied to and are you okay telling a lie? That's another subject for another time. The question for today is, what is friendship. Is it what you can get or is it give and take or is it just giving without any expectation.

Finding friends in the city can be a jungle in the dark while having a hundred people yapping at you at once, it makes it hard to sort out what is the unimportant from the necessary. And if you are in need of something out of a friendship it is already at a loss and it makes it hard to recover towards a 'healthy' relationship.

So, can you ask a stranger to fly a kite with you and you provide the kite AND not have anything go through your brain that even hints towards 'I want something in return'.

In my neighborhood with its mix of Asian, Italian, Mexican, and plain old folk who have been here since the birth of Chicago, the desire for friends to be just friends is a hard concept to consider. Some Chicago neighborhoods have bred a attitude of suspicion, which in some cases is deserved, but most of the time the idea of fear and that 'everyone is going to steal from me' is imagination gone wild and is a big reason for friends never finding each other.

It's an experiment that is worth the effort (which depends on the kind of kite you have) and yet the word 'experiment' is fully on what I will do, not what they will do.

Well, I'm off to fly a kite, latrz!