Halt, who goes there...

...friend or foe!

Received a comment in the form of a question on my last post (The Little Frog & Duck Boy In The I.E. Part 1):

"...when do we know that friendship has become foe, or when we've just let something good slip away?"

Answering a question with a question or two or several:

Can a friend be a foe at the same time? Aristotle ( at least I think it was him) said that friends are 2 bodies sharing one soul. If that's the case, how can they be friend and foe. Isn't a true friend someone who always wants the best for you? When that stops, is it not a transition out of friendship into some other relationship as it is when love becomes indifference?

Perhaps this is too simplistic a view, too much of a 'binary' approach to something so subjective but if you had to do a T-list, your friends in one column and your acquaintances in the other, which column would be longer?