My mom had said, hey, there's a boy who you're going to be in the same class with.

Here's this address. You should go down and say hi. And I walked off by myself, which I was pretty brave, five-year-old, whatever, six-year-old. I rang the bell. And Peter came to the door. I was like, hi. My name's Mike. My mom says we should be friends. How my name's Father Mike and this is essentially presents. We have a kind of a crisis in friendlessness. You know how hard it is to make friends these days?

I mean, just really how hard it is. You don't just knock on someone's door. Hey, can we be friends?

My mom says we should be friends. That doesn't really happen. A lot of times, what it is is we have,

you know, similar interests. Or we just, and again, as I said, happened to work together.

You know, it was Aristotle who a number of years ago, when Aristotle was alive, he actually

categorized kinds of friendship. He actually, he had categorized three kinds of friendship. He said,

there are friendships of utility. There are useful friendships. There are friendships of pleasure, essentially, or pleasant friendships.

And then there's this third kind, friendships that are rooted in virtue.

Those are the kind of friendships that when we talk about having a best friend.

Typically, we're thinking of that.

But a lot of us spend a lot of time with friendships of utility and friendships that are pleasant friendships.

Those aren't bad.

So a friendship of utility is, you know, I don't know you're working on a project together.

You're on the same team, on the same sports team, maybe in high school or something, maybe college.

That kind of thing you work together.

So in the office, these are your office friends.

And you spend time together because it helps you work together. So in the office, these are your office friends. And you spend time

together because it helps you accomplish something. And so they're friendships of utility. And again, those aren't bad. But when we experience this, this, you know, ache or this hollowness or this kind of, like, I want more, though. But I have a bunch of people in my life. Like, you would think that I'm around people all day. I go to the office or I go to wherever it is you work. And I have these pals. I have these buddies. I have these friends. But there's not a friendship that touches my heart. Or that's friendships of utility, right? Useful friendships. Not bad. Just not that deep always. Then we have pleasant friendships, right? Friendships where we just simply enjoy each other's

company. Once again, not bad. Actually, pretty dang good. These are your buddies. You love hanging out

together. Maybe you have the same interests. Like, we all like the Renaissance Festival, going on

roller coasters, playing pickup basketball on the weekends, or whatever the thing is,

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