She said she was upset that I wouldn’t want her there even if she wore her regular clothes and I told her that that’s not fair, that I put in all of this effort for a beautiful event where everyone can be a little extra for one day and I didn’t want her to ruin the aesthetic. The thought of people actually disliking the friends they willingly choose to spend time with but persevering based strictly on a shared affiliation for cargo pants and Salomon’s was absolutely absurd to me. Tutorials on how to take aesthetic (rather than organized) notes and YouTube tours of color-coded pantries that may not be realistic to maintain are great examples of that. And so, the aesthetic master class is not for people that have never placed an implant at the front of the mouth. We are here to be a part of your happiest days, your loved ones, your most special excitement, and to carry your inner voice on you.

The postmodern condition is one that carries us away from solid, real sources of meaning towards an ever expanding hierarchy of symbolism. D. Novitz (1989) ‘Ways of Artmaking: The High and the Popular in Art’, British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (3), 213–29. The way my friends and I look as a unit may be inconsistent, but we have a genuine love and respect for one another, are interested in each other’s lives and share commonalities in areas outside of the way we dress.She asked if I was really hosting an event for the book club and not inviting her and after hesitating I said yes but only because I know she would never wear a ball gown or put effort into looking good. I found myself nodding my head at another user’s take, who insists that “true friendship is when everyone rocks up for the same event looking like they’re all going somewhere different”.

In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship. It’s 1 day and it’s here and it will be among friends where we can all talk about the things that we don’t know and try to learn some of those things and share some of the things that we do. From Christmas candles to tea to stuffed animals, there are so many ah-mazing choices that your bestie will love. A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that's been bothering you. A. Nehamas (2010) ‘The Good of Friendship’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 110 (3), 267–94.

Perhaps as we build like this, we can do some bat sh*t crazy stuff in our work as well as on our bikes. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. The friendships we forge and those we forgo, the loves we cultivate and those we lose, these varying and variable relations broaden (or impoverish) our experiences, intensify (or diminish) our feelings, and help (or hinder) our self understanding and self creation. F. Hutcheson (2004) An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund). It feels inextricably tied to modern society’s obsession with images, and the increasing extent to which we use them to understand ourselves, or appease the anxiety produced by not understanding ourselves.