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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

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What a Good Friend Can Do for You

How do you think of a good friendship? What does it bring us? How should we seek it into our lives? I mean, look, a good friend does many things for us. They stretch our conception of normality beyond what we normally hear and are made to understand in the kind of ordinary hubbub of society. And that's very useful. Another thing a good frienddoes is give us a chance to be agreeably and necessarily silly. Adult life is very serious, but sometimes we need to release,. We need to giggle, we need to laugh,We need to get in touch with the more playful sides of us.

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