Friendship

Friendship is a type of connection, a union, a relationship. Interestingly, the etymology refers to a loved one.
can't answer precisely but in japan there's a whole culture around old age, at some point they form best-friend group (3-5 persons from what I recall) and they spend their time together. It avoid a gazillions of problems from loneliness, rumination/depression, lack of activity and compensations.. Now they're all very old so it's not teen spirit but the looked way better than a lot of elders who ended up bitter if not more.--- [–]agumonkey 9 points 7 hours ago"When it comes to friendship breakups, I think there’s no real difference emotionally between them and the breakup of a serious relationship, or potentially even the death of someone,” says Dave, 32, who has lost two friends, one of a decade, another of 15 years. “For me, the emotional impact has been the same. It’s the grief of knowing you’re not going to see or speak to that person again; the adjustment to a new reality in which that person is no longer a part of your life.”
It’s no wonder it hurts so much. “We choose our friends, firstly, whereas with family we can’t choose them,” says Weekend’s advice columnist Annalisa Barbieri [...] “Because we choose them, we tend to go for things we really like in people, or that we need. And therefore, when they end, it’s more catastrophic.”
== Rhizomata ==
Poverty has been associated with a lack of friendship or connections.
Love; Peace on earth
A type of: spiritual treasure; spiritual relationship.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/21/like-having-limb-cut-off-pain-friendship-breakups#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20it%20comes,it%E2%80%99s%20more%20catastrophic.%E2%80%9D
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