Happiness & the Three Levels of Friendship
A secret unlocked from 2300 years ago
“Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.” — Anna Quindlen, 2012
Do you know anyone who’s constantly transactional?
They ask you to do them a favor and they’ll provide one in return for you. Hopefully.
They predicate their willingness to be faithful to you based on your fealty to them.
But you know, deep down, that if you don’t play their tit-for-tat game, that the loyalty (which wasn’t really loyalty in the first place) evaporates like the wispy veil of fog that the relationship was.
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