Why we make effort to keep friends?

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Originally posted by Contact
I sometimes wonder why friends keep in touch with each other? Why make all that effort when one has so much to do?

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but . . .


What the fuck are you talking about?

The only way one can justify his place in the world is to live a life fully dedicated to others. Friends are people you've invested yourself in, and if you can't find time in your busy schedule to 'make all that effort' and figure out what's up with them, then you've proven yourself a selfish and perfectly useless human being.

We don't exist in a Darwinist society, whereby anything advantagous to the individual should be seen as superior - how about reverting to atruism and being generally helpful?

Friends aren't around to give you stock tips - instead, think about friends as a 2-way mirror. Depending on the angle you look at them, you can either look into the person and learn about them, or conversely you can reflect upon yourself . . . even better, I'll say you do both at the same time. Either way, the knowledge gained through this kind of interaction is irreplacable.

To be so selfish as to think that the gains of keeping in touch with those you care about are outweighed by the amount of effort required to keep those bonds is, at the highest, base, lazy, and narrow-sighted. The rewards you gain from keeping strong intrapersonal relationships, the amount you learn from allowing others to know you, and the power you gain from putting yourself out for other people cannot be matched in any other way.