Wanting to break through the wall of loneliness is a basic instinct. It’s often at the root of many behaviors, such as changing jobs, churches, moving to a new neighborhood/city, etc.
It’s also not unusual to go through a difficult struggle and emerge from it saying, “I want to help others ... Views: 1020
I suppose the concept of love as an enemy of friendship sounds kind of counter-intuitive, doesn’t it?
Andrew Sullivan wrote a long chapter about friendship in his book Love Undetectable and says our modern fixation on eros/romantic love is such that “it has acquired all the hallmarks of a ... Views: 872
In this age of social media, we toss about the term BFF (Best Friends Forever) pretty casually.
Many friendships aren’t of the “forever” variety, however, and have a shelf life even though Facebook makes it possible to artificially extend that shelf life and let us pretend we still have some ... Views: 740