The dwindling presence of friendship in life
- Life-long friends make new life choices, drift apart.
- The career mindedness, the self optimization, the adventures, the travel, the trying to survive in desirable places to live which become comically expensive to do so — all of it has left us very tired.
- Difficult to make true friends after entering 30s
- Friendship fizzling into WhatsApp volleys back and forth.
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