It is true great things come in small packages. As your life gets busier, you may discount how essential friendship is for you. The investment you make in friendships will be rewarded and returned tenfold in life. We all need friends, ranging from close to casual friends. We especially need a few close friends who stick around through thick and thin, who take the time to listen, and with whom we have a shared history.
Friendship can be fun.
It can also reduce the emotional devastation associated with job loss or dissatisfaction, divorce, or death of a spouce. Friendship also helps to reduce excessive dependency on your spouse. But friends can only be good medicine if you take the time to keep them involved in your life. There are many ways to fit friendship into your life. Here are 20 tips.