Still sick... but i'm gonna suck it up and write a real blog today.

So today in my sociology class, this guy presented his final project and it was a construction paper chain with pictures on it. Basically, he was symbolizing the chain links, and how all the events represented were connected together and intertwined. Basically, that everything effected each other.

Well, i'm gonna go with that analogy but use it on friendship. A chain metaphor friendship would be one where everyone is intertwined. They all support each other in some way. Together they form something grander that cannot be destroyed. It is a bond. But here is the flaw of a chain: each link serves its own purpose. Each link is unique. If one link of the chain fails and breaks, then the whole chain is broken. Whatever it was holding together is gone.

I'd rather my friendship be a rope. Same concept. Each thread of the rope symbolized one friend. The threads by themselves are weak, but when braided together, they form a much stronger bond in the rope. If one thread were to break, the rope would still hold together. Granted, in this analogy, the rope is easier to cut then the chain, but you know, there are steel braided lines as well.

So what say you? Are you and your friends bonded together like a chain, or bonded together like a rope?

Are you all individuals that work together as a group only because it's convenient (chain)? Or do you truly truly believe in your friends that you would sacrifice yourself for the many (rope)?

Call me a chauvinist or whatever, but i'd like to throw out that I think female friendships are more like chains, and male friendships are more like ropes.