Simon Sinek distinguishes between two kinds of friends: those you call when things fall apart and need to be raw, and the smaller circle you call to brag about wins. Loneliness hits when one of these verticals disappears entirely.
— I've learned this recently, which I find incredibly fascinating, which is we all, I hope, have a couple of friends that we can go to in the most difficult times, where when we are not in a good place, when we are feeling very weak, that we know who we can be raw with. I hope. I hope. What I've learned is that there's an even smaller number of friends that we can call and brag to. Not every friend has to have all those things. It's okay that some friends, you know, they're over here and some friends are over here. The point is, I think the striving should be that we have access to everything at some point. And I think where loneliness shows up is when one of those verticals is completely missing. No one to brag to or no one to go to in hard times. Mm-hmm.
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