My wife suggested I write about friendship for this essay. Probably because I don’t make close friends easily. I, like most people, have many acquaintances but friends, true friends, are the next level. I look at relationships with others as concentric rings. On the outside ring are the day-to-day interactions I have with strangers and working inwards, there are the civil interactions and relationships I have with co-workers and acquaintances and beyond that is the circle of friendship, some family members, and at core is the innermost trust-based relationship with my wife and daughter.