How to Make Friends as an Adult

Most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many fucks in situations where fucks do not deserve to be given.

#1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Manson's summary of 14 best nonfiction books he thinks everyone should read.

I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

«I’ve come to believe that friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.»

The Other Significant Others

Fortunate is the person who has reached the age of 50 without having had to grieve. To be among the grieving, the bereaved, is an experience most of us go through, excepting only those who die…

«Grief presents us with a rare opportunity to relate to ourselves more fully, rationally, and lovingly.»

In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles

«As a rising middle class started to focus on their own family trees, creating an ‘elite’ from new money, so dogs started to be classified too.»

Friendship is as essential to good health as eating right and getting enough sleep, experts say.