We are getting to be of an age when it is difficult to grow new friends; we haven't the energy, the time to cultivate; each one gone is a permanent impoverishment.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author discusses the difficulty of making new friends as we age. He frames the loss of friends as a permanent loss of self.
- In plain terms
- Making friends is harder as we age, and losing them is a permanent loss.
- What can you take from it?
- Value the effort required to maintain friendships.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why is it harder to make friends as we age?
- How do you value your friendships?
Another view
Some people find it easy to make friends at any age.
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