Composition created around the concept of friendship and a soul mate. Inspired by the writings of Aristotle in “Ethics to Nicomaque”, Agnès Lavida realizes this composition as a true ode to friendship, to Philia, so named by the great philosopher as being the affection which makes us love a being. for what it is and not for what it can bring us.

The bonds of friendship are one of the constituents of our "destiny" and the uniqueness of each one rests in large part on the web of human relationships to which they belong. When some people are with us throughout our lives, others are only there with us for a certain period of time.

In his investigation of happiness and virtue, Aristotle finds that his reflection on pleasure leads him to question friendship, which will be the subject of books VIII and IX of his treatise.

At first, it appears that friendship, besides being a thing of great beauty, is the most necessary thing because men need friends in all situations, whatever their condition and whatever their age. When a friendship is not an accidental friendship, that is, when the two subjects are openly benevolent towards each other and are friends without any ulterior motives, it is a real friendship, or completed, the Philia, founded on the virtue of each of the two partners.

Perfect friendship is that of virtuous men who are alike in virtue: for these friends alike wish each other good inasmuch as they are good, and they are good in themselves. But those who wish good to their friends for the sake of them are friends par excellence (since they behave in this way towards each other because of the nature of each of them, and not by accident) ; therefore their friendship persists as long as they themselves are good, and virtue is a stable disposition. It is natural that friendships of this kind are rare, for such men are few in number ... Aristotle Ethics to Nicomachean