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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

CHAPTER

Are You Left With More Energy or With Negativity?

I'm interested that you brought in friendships here, which has been a really important theme on our program. I'd love to explore friendship with you and why you think it's so important, especially now and in the modern world. Well, I'll start with a confession. I don't have enough friends. And this isn't a personal deficiency. It's a sign of how demanding it is and how arduous it is to find the connection we long for. We generally assume that unless we've just moved town, unless we're kind of new in a place, we should have friends. But no, I think it's very possible to have reached, you know, middle age and later

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