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Today's topic is choosing quality friendships over quantity.

Now, friendship is one of the most important things in our lives, right?

It is something that we need in every phase and every stage of growing up

and adulting. But I would actually argue that friendship is even more critical and more important

as we get older, as we adult, because life is hard. There's so many things that come our way,

the older we get. And real life problems happen that perhaps don't happen when we're kids.

And you really need people that you can lean on and that you can count on.

And at any moment of any day, you can call or text and you know that someone is going to be there for you.

It's a beautiful thing to find your tribe in life.

And that's why I always say quality friendships is so much more important than quantity. Having people in your life, even if it's just a few

that you know have your back through thick and thin is so much more valuable than having

20, you know, so, so friends.

Because at the end of the day, who's going to have your back in your best interest,

those few friends or those 20 friends?

And I've learned this throughout my life in some very big and important lessons.

And I think people sometimes say, oh, man, I wish I had more friends, whereas the narrative should be,

I wish I had more quality friends. So I think I'm also passionate about this topic because there's a lot

in life we don't get to choose. Things just happen sometimes to us and we can't control them

as much as we try to hold on to that control. We don't control life all the time. You can only control so much, but you can control

who you're friends with and who you invest in and the people you allow in your life and in your

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