friends shape your identity
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friends shape your identity
AGAIN I’LL SAY IT: Life is a process in which you collect people and prune them when they stop working for you. The only exception to that rule is the friends you make in college.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
They found that while the family component of the network remained stable (as one might expect), it was what they called the personal (that is, the support network) and friendship components that expanded and then declined with age.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
It was interesting for me to observe how friendships disintegrated because I can no longer relate to my work. A large part of it was due to my own effort to distance myself, but I still observed how there used to be countless requests to meet up for coffee (sometimes to “pick my brain”) that dwindled once people realised I was no longer interested ... See more
Winnie Lim • what is there when there is nothing
What’s your experience of friendship like these days—both