How My Name is Father Mike Schmidt's and this is a

sensual presence. So a little while back, a man came to me and he was saying that

everyone tells him that he needs to have deeper friendships in his life and

he was saying that I have enough people in my life. I'm not lonely. I'm not

wrestling with any kind of absence of company and an absence of even closeness.

But the people who really know me tell me that I don't have any good friends. And I

think that's really actually really interesting because unlike this guy, there

is a number of articles about what has been termed the crisis of friendship

that is in our culture right now. That not actually just in our culture, I mean,

it's across the world and many ways, many parts of the developed world. There's

this sense of disconnectedness, right? One of the reasons actually the main reason

when it comes down to it is, well, two main reasons, the second main reason is

to be at the end of this. The first main reason is we don't have close families

anymore. I mean, it's actually, isn't it just the dumbest thing in the world that

for centuries, for millennia, what would happen when you became an adult? You

would typically, you know, marry someone and then move in next door to your

parents or move into the next floor above your parents or you'd stay with your

extended families when I'm trying to say. And now a mark of adulthood is what?

You turn 18 and you move not just like down the street. Typically it's you leave

your hometown and maybe even leave your home state. And like that's what we call

like being a mature adult. That's what it is to be a grown up is the sign is you've

left your hometown. And that's so weird because for ever pretty much, I mean,

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