Differences, similarities formula for friendship

Two friends make eye contact and each cracks a smile from across the room. No words are exchanged but there is more communication going on here than on most social network sites. Inside jokes, which soon bubble into laughter, flow between them. It is not telepathy, but merely two friends who have grown so close they have no need for words. 

This Valentine’s Day sophomores Levi Wilkins and Felicity Harrett will be celebrating a friendship that has been going strong for two years.  

“We met in the fall of eighth grade,” Wilkins said. “I needed help with math homework. Since then, our relationship has grown, and we’ve have become almost inseparable. It’s a kind of love that can go deeper than an intimate relationship kind of love.”

The two students initially bonded through similar interests and mutual friends.

“We like the same music, movies and genres,” Wilkins said. “We bond over that, and a lot of what we do is just hanging out and having fun.”

The two said they have learned to bond over their differences as well as their similarities.

 “You find a lot of similarities in the way that we act,” Harrett said.  “We have completely different personalities, but it’s kind of a yin and yang situation.”

Wilkins said the pair don’t have many differences but when they do, they complement one another.

“With our unique relationship we can remain independent but at the same time, we can complement each other on things,” Wilkins said. “She does one thing and I do something different, but it still works.”