We might spend a lot of energy trying to maintain our friendships. Or something like that. A lot of our energy has to be spent on balancing our relationships. Relationships are not easy to maintain. We have to give strokes to those we are around.
Some people live in that sort of world totally.
They totally live for their friends, the type of gossip they get, the emotional support they get from their friends. There might not appear to be anything wrong with that. But, if you look at it, you might at the end of your life given yourself for all of your friends and find at the time of death when you need help, you do not have any inner growth or stability because you have always relied on others. So at the time of death you feel suffering and anxiety. You can even become hysterical.