My best friend’s name is Tim and this is an abstract art of our relationship. We’ve been best friends since we were 5 years old and we have had many common interests since we were young. Some of our common childhood interests were gathering a lot of snails into one spot from the back of church and crushing it by stomping on it. In junior high, we were obsessed with collecting Dragonball cards. We both had an organized folder of cards and we would trade every time we saw each other. In high school, we played in the same worship band so music was what brought us together. But starting in high school, we started to have a lot of disagreements because of our opposite personalities.
Tim was very structured while I was very free spirited, and that caused a lot of frictions. I thought I was always a good friend but always listening to all his crap, but I got fed up but didn’t know how to verbalize it. Tim was always the talker and I was the listener. After a long time, my identity became a listener, and I felt like that I got locked into a box. There were a lot of conflicted feelings that built up from life that got bottled up with it.
But after high school, we departed from each other. I went to college and Tim went to the army. While we were apart, I had my chance to search, realize, and develop my own character. My whole life, I thought that Tim was normal. I thought that everyone is a talker and had a strong personality like him. My world view for people was that everyone must be like Tim. I realized that that was not true. I realized that Tim is a very special case. So in my own mind, I thought that everyone was like Tim. I went to college, met thousands of people and came to a truth that not everyone is like Tim. Out of thousands people that I met, only one other reminded me of Tim.
It was in college when I started to really miss Tim in my life and really appreciated him. I drew this piece when I was in Seattle visiting Tim when he was stationed at Fort Lewis for his Army while studying his undergrad at UW. I’m super grateful for Tim because he was always committed to our friendship even when I felt like giving it up back in high school. Over the course of college, I became more structured and Tim became more free spirited. We kinda flip flopped. We learned to balance and adjust ourselves to adapt to whatever environment we get tossed into. His friendship formed the foundation of my life on how I make friends now. Currently we live separate lives but yet very parallel, that functions with a deep mutual respect for one another in true love that compliments deliciously in the spirit realm. O_O
