How many friends do I need?
Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
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Is It Possible to Retain Lifelong Friends?
i used a standard letter sized piece of paper, and honestly, i wish i'd had a whole whiteboard, the thing turned into such a mess. The average just takes all o our deeply varied experiences and flans them down into one number. When we try to figure out if something is normal, we tend to gravitate towards averages. But an average doesn't actually tell us what normal looks like. For me, it wasn't the average that really helped me see what i needed in my friendships. And if you did your own friendship mapping, when you look at your drawing, are you seeing what you need in life? In losing two friends, i noticed something else shifting, that
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