EP. 40 - Friendship: What Is Friendship For?
Friendship: What Is Friendship For?
What place does friendship have in a good life?
As we get older, friendships can quietly change or disappear. Work, children, ambition, relocation, fatigue and changing values all reshape who we spend our time with. But perhaps the more interesting question isn't why friendships disappear, but why some survive—and whether every friendship is meant to.
In this episode, Evan Sutter explores friendship through the lens of seasons, solitude, ambition, attention, mortality and human flourishing. What does it mean to build a life in which friendship has somewhere to live? And if life is finite, who do we actually want beside us while we're living it?