Choose your side: The Thin Red Line

I've always loved Ledisi's song, "Best Friend." It tells a tale of a woman who is in love with her male best friend, and that love is causing internal strife and confusion.




This post is to placate my piqued curiosity.

If you cross the line with your friend, what happens?

Lets say you have a friend. A hypothetical friend, and this friend over the course of several years has grown to know your relationship hang ups, hold ons, turn ons, turn offs, desires, fantasies, drunken truths, sober truths, might have consoled you through tears of previous boyfriend(s), broken hearts, drunken stupors surrounding an ex... this friend has seen emotional parts of you that sometimes you don't even realize are there until you're sharing them.

There have been so many times that you've done something so completely off the wall, for whatever reason, you still call him (because he's your friend), and you're shocked he even answers the phone (because he's your friend). In some way, you already love him deep enough, but it's platonic.

You both have teeter tottered, fumbled around with the notion, but currently understand completely the reality that you both have positions in each other's Friend Zone. Of course, you and your friend both are enjoying doing what you all do with your respective lovers. BUT, eventually, there comes a moment, when the opportunity arises to cross the line.




One day, you try it. He's ready, you're ready... or are you?

Will you cross the thin red line between that romantic-less love and friendship and skirt into that other love that goes with homey lover friend-dom?




I mean, is that the situation, or have you just committed to being buddies? You know, that beneficial arrangement that doesn't allow for complaining when another buddy steps into the picture?




Will someone hang on to a pipe dream, thinking the friend is gonna leave who they're with and start a relationship?




Have you singing


or




Internally, hearts exploding like Bombs over Baghdad


cause Sister told you a story that some friends are only about that thing.




It's a thin line. What would happen if you crossed it?