Friends are useless, opinion

Do you remember your kindergarten friends? Can you name three?

Okay, now name three memories with each of them.

If you can’t recall, that’s normal.

I am not denying the value of interacting with people. A lot of internalised knowledge and communication skills can be yielded from them.

However, numerous friendships are just there for the sake of it. You will just forget them after you graduate. And then you will find new friends, and then forget about them.

The loop goes on and on. The main goal in life is not about maximizing your number of friends.

You will forget about most of them anyway. It is more about valuing the quality of each individual friend.

As long as you have a few close friends, you should actively avoid developing friendships with others.

All you are going to do is waste your time and effort and learn nothing new from those losses.

Epicurus had a few friends around him, and that was all he needed to be happy. He didn’t need to have a large group of friends to feel fulfilled. He just needed some close friends to talk to and be understood.

The same thing goes for you. Stop trying to mingle with everyone and be everyone’s best friend, you will just end up downtrodden.

If you disagree, just name three memories with your kindergarten friends……