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The Centrality of Friendship and the Cycle of Change
Friendship plays a pivotal role in people's lives and has been on the decline, leading to an increasing loneliness crisis. Developing close friendships can alleviate the pressure on intimate partnerships and bring immense value. The cycle of change is better described by allostasis, which emphasizes stability through change, in contrast to the traditional model of homeostasis, which advocates for stability by remaining the same. Allostasis suggests that thriving individuals navigate life through a cycle of order, disorder, reorder, demonstrating the possibility of stability through change and the need to change to some extent to maintain stability.