Think of your friends. Do you spend every weekend with them? Do they know everything about you? What qualifies someone as your best friend?
When Mrs. Stein and I aren’t in school or at the gym, we’re with our friends. We meet friends for dinner, or for a bike ride, or for a hike, or for a concert, or we just go to someone’s house and play backyard games; the point is, we are always spending time with our friends. Part of the reason for this is that we have so many friends that we don’t have enough time to spend with them. From current friend groups to high school and college friends to new friends, we struggle to make sure we’ve seen everyone in a given year, and that is too long to go without seeing friends. So why am I repeating the word friends every other word?
This year I decided to focus my curation around my friends. The people I see every week. The people I only get to see a few times a year. And my best friend, who lucky for me, I get to see every day. I obviously focused on what we’ve done this year, but some of these friendships were made twenty five years ago, some were made twenty two years ago, some were made seven years ago, and some were just made this year. My point is that a good friendship continues to grow and change as you do. If a friendship works, your shared perspective and sense of humor will transcend other changes. Sometimes you'll change together. Either way, friends help keep you healthy, and I plan on living to 108, so I need all the friends I can get. Here are some of the friends I spent the most time with in 2018/19. To the friends that didn't make the curation this year, I don't love you any less; let's be better in 2019/20; I miss you!