Don’t Find Yourself — Find Yourself Friends

5 Reasons why friendships are priceless and 5 tips on how to make friends

Claudia Brose
10 min readJul 24, 2022
Photo © John McDermott | Me and my best friend

Two things carry you through life, your health, and your friends.

Both are precious and priceless.

For me, they are the two most important things in life you can have.

Let’s talk about friends and friendships.

Do you have friends?

I would assume so. But last week I got proven wrong with my assumption that, normally, everyone has friends.

An hour of discussion on the topic of how we make friends and maintain friendships in a small global business group I am part of made me realize that I took for granted what others look for in life.

For me, having friends, all my life, seemed normal and natural. I have them, I love them, I appreciate them, I care for them. I thought this is normal. They came with growing up and while walking through life. Actually, shouldn’t it be normal?

In that vivid discussion, I realized it might not be normal, or let’s say: many people seem to have lost the art of making friends, or, the natural ability to have, make and maintain friendships.

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Claudia Brose

Writer, Event-Creator, Marketing Professional turned Rebel against a rushed world | Japan mad | Cyclist | Get my Newsletter Un-Rush claudiabrose.substack.com