This is why the friends you have had for 20 years and beyond make you live better thanks to their proximity and why you should take care of them.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousThis is why the friends you have had for 20 years and beyond make you live better thanks to their proximity and why you should take care of them.
There are friendships that come and go, and others that last a lifetime. Which are the most important? There is no right answer, friends are always friends, whether they lasted only 1 month or for 20 years or more.
The fact is, however, that the most lasting friendships have something special because, resisting the passage of time and overcoming the ups and downs of life, they are strengthened and nourished year after year. In fact, it is not easy to keep them when you change cities, start a family, children arrive and many other responsibilities, or when you make different choices, but if it happens, the bond is very special.
Friendships of the soul we could call them, sometimes born by chance, others by choice, which resist the tests because they are destined to accompany us throughout our existence. So much so that it becomes an integral part of it, to the point of not being able to conceive without them.
Trustworthy people, they are the friends who have been with us for 20 years, in front of whom we don't need to wear masks because it is as if they have always known us. People who help us, support us and who, if necessary, criticize us to warn us if something is wrong. Special friendships because they are deeply intimate, intimacy that is nourished by slowness and delicacy.
But to be able to maintain friendships of 20 years and beyond, it also takes a precious ingredient that is the will. As important as they are, if we don't take care of them, even historical friendships can fly away, and the risk is to realize it too late.
If a friend stands the test of time, it is also because there has been a mutual willingness to nurture that bond, regardless of external circumstances. And then there is the genuineness, without which a friendship cannot be said to be such, a precious ingredient to make it last a lifetime.
Ultimately, friendships that have lasted for 20 years and more are irreplaceable and beneficial at 360 degrees because:
- they are authentic and genuine;
- they help and support us in positive and negative moments;
- they resist life changes because they are true;
- they are intimate and deep;
- they go beyond appearances;
- they criticize but do not judge;
- they make us feel at home.
Do you have any friends of a lifetime?
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