How to Cultivate Good and Healthy Friendships

A deeper look into the meaning of friendship—and its, sometimes, inevitable end.

I’ve been blessed to have met so many interesting people in my life so far.

I get along with most people. The electric connection at first is the best. It’s like a high that can never come down because I just want to talk, do, see everything together. Then, I’m left to wonder if the connection was real after the sparks fade—and sometimes they never fade.

People would say to me, “If you have to ask, then it was never real.”

I beg to differ.

Oftentimes, I can connect with someone but time is not always on our side. And every day, we make micro-decisions that ultimately leads us down separate paths; to see different things and be different people. And no matter how much I held on in the past, letting go always served me better in the long-run.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.—Dale Carnegie