It is different being friends in adult life as compared to childhood or during college?
Very much so, in my experience. Our natural state during childhood is to live surrounded by our friends; and we think it will be like that forever in our lack of experience. Then one day we wake-up and discover that everyone follows their separate paths and occupy the months and years with divergent careers, families, etc., and we realize that the normal condition of everyday adult life is the absence of our friends. Yet then when old friends come together again during holidays and/or special occasions, it is only that much more meaningful and delicious. Franklin tells us there are only three truly faithful friends in life: “an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” I have fortunately been blessed with a more expansive understanding of faithful friendship.
