Emily GiffinAs everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
About This Quote
A beautiful quote about friendship that reveals how important it is to have friends. When we are young, most of us spend most of our time with only a few close friends. As we grow older, most of us choose to spend our time with a select few special people. This is because when we are young, we have nothing to gain from being around people who aren’t good friends with us.
We gain nothing from them and they gain nothing from us. However, when we get older, even if we still don’t have much in common with the people we hang out with, we can gain a great deal from being around them. We may be able to teach each other things that our friends wouldn’t know about otherwise and we may be able to learn a lot from them as well.
We all have something in common and the people who surround us every day can help make up for the parts of our lives that we don’t enjoy.
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