Friends are very hard to come by these days. Covid and politics put a damper on a lot of ours. It’s a struggle to get people to go out and do anything anymore. I thank GOD my husband and I are best buds ... but I fear for each of us if one or the other suddenly leaves this earth.
Beyond “friends,” I see many marriages based on these same superficialities.
Perhaps I’m the odd man out, but I don’t think so.
I have a best friend of decades. I have strong friendships with dozens of others.
Very good article.
I have a few friends. Till recently, I did not realize that was rare.
I have friends. Friends who if I call tonight, will help me. Friends who if they call I will help. Friends to share joys and sorrows with. Prayers and weeping with.
That is rare, and a gift that is rare.
But most relationships are based in “What can you do for me?”
Some of us put up with a lot of personal attacks and name calling on this
site…
Not only because some of you are our FRiends…
We want to see you reach the other side of this war that some of you
don’t even know we are in, alive and free.
~Easy
Maybe it’s because the Left does everything it can to create a culture of alienation (destruction of the family, porn, etc...), while the “Right” keeps telling you that you need to be a muh rugged individualist (so that the Left can pick you off easier). The elites have that all tied in a nice little bow.
We live in a society.
Get a dog.
Much harder to have friends if one is not part of a church community.
Among those that understand
God's second chosen people.
Catholics sent out missionaries . . .
Americans sent out the Gospel.
I have friends from high school 50+years ago. I have friends from former work settings going back 30 years. I have never thought of friendship as a sort of quid pro quo deal, or any the other rather weird stuff this person talks about.
I have made friends because I and they clicked and enjoyed each others’ company. No competition, no what do i get out of it. What’s so hard? There is no doubt though that making new friends diminishes as we age. I don’t see this as a problem, just a fact of life If I have three or four good friends, I don’t need any more. If someone comes along that’s great, but i don’t seek friends.
Those who have never made friends will find old age a lonely time, but that
is not addressed in this opinion piece,
12 years ago yesterday I moved 600 miles for a new job. The family followed a few months later.
While we’ve made friends in our new town, when we go back home and see a few old friends, we haven’t missed a beat.
A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body.
I moved around quite a bit, I hv friends all over, but we can’t get together because we are all thousands of miles apart.
I have neighbors, but everyone works.
My ol’ buddies stay in touch electronically, but that’s just mostly to share a few tall tales.
-Benjamin Franklin
As American as you can get.
Outside of my family, I have zero friends. Mostly because over the course of the past 89 years, I found most ‘friendships’ to be a one way street. And of course the others died off.