Advantages of friendships

Friendships create diversity. Your chances of dealing with certain problems are increased if you have friends with different skillsets.

• For instance, the death of a partner. Your survival is dependent on having close friends who can support you through difficult times.
• Friends with different interests, strengths, and weaknesses provide a safe space to help us test our ideas and develop our character.
• Friends with different talents can help us realize our own potential.
• Our life expectancy increases with a network of reliable friends.

If friendship becomes another checkbox on your to-do list, you're probably going to miss out on good friendships.

If we put in some effort into learning how to become a good friend, the rest will come easier. With friendships, we live longer, with more laughter, less fear, and a higher qual...