Bishop Tobin's Without A Doubt: Our Fragile, Fickle Friendships

“Fragile” refers to something that’s easily broken; “fickle” to something that changes frequently. Both adjectives describe adequately the experience of friendship we sometimes have. If you think about it, our friendships, and a variety of other important human relationships, are fragile, fickle little creatures, aren’t they — easily broken and frequently changing? More.