Friendship - The necessary friction
- Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction - it takes effort to know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life and to show up for them when they maybe a vulnerable anxious mess — this is all friction.
- Friction is not just interrupting your day or life to help out a friend, but also admitting you need the kind of help you cannot pay for or order yourself.
- But only then, returns could be expected from them, for when your own self gets vulnerable, anxious and messy.
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