Oct 28, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
Everyone wants a village, but nobody wants to be a villager. It’s the phrase taking over the internet, and it raises a pretty uncomfortable question - have we become so obsessed with protecting our…
Yeah, it's so many different things that make friendship feel like such a complicated topic.
And one is like making friends in the first place, especially as you become an adult.
But I think what you're speaking to as well is just the difficulty in being able to maintain friendships and especially ones that you've had over a really long time.
Is that sort of the central problem that you see? It's like we do make friends, we just don't know how to maintain them in the long run, right?
You know, we have this collection of friends from all different parts of our life.
But the problem with modern friendship is that most likely they only share common history with us, not necessarily each other.
We have our friends from childhood, our friends from school, our friends from our job, our friends from the neighborhood, from our second neighborhood, our third neighborhood.
We have to individually make a case for why we should keep a certain friendship active or let it fade.
You know, should I reach out to someone from my past? I call these nostalgic friends, friends that we have a lot of history with, a lot of affection, but there's no reason to be in touch.
Even just learning that we have active friendships, we have nostalgic friendships.
That's given me a lot of peace of, oh, okay, well, a nostalgic friendship might take longer to reply to you.
So the calculation shifts and it really changes a lot once people couple up too, because their identity shifts again of going from a best friend, a daughter, sister, to now they're a spouse.
Yeah, it's so many different things that make friendship feel like such a complicated topic.
And one is like making friends in the first place, especially as you become an adult.
But I think what you're speaking to as well is just the difficulty in being able to maintain friendships and especially ones that you've had over a really long time.
Is that sort of the central problem that you see? It's like we do make friends, we just don't know how to maintain them in the long run, right?
You know, we have this collection of friends from all different parts of our life.
But the problem with modern friendship is that most likely they only share common history with us, not necessarily each other.
We have our friends from childhood, our friends from school, our friends from our job, our friends from the neighborhood, from our second neighborhood, our third neighborhood.
We have to individually make a case for why we should keep a certain friendship active or let it fade.
You know, should I reach out to someone from my past? I call these nostalgic friends, friends that we have a lot of history with, a lot of affection, but there's no reason to be in touch.
Even just learning that we have active friendships, we have nostalgic friendships.
That's given me a lot of peace of, oh, okay, well, a nostalgic friendship might take longer to reply to you.
So the calculation shifts and it really changes a lot once people couple up too, because their identity shifts again of going from a best friend, a daughter, sister, to now they're a spouse.
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