Hey there, I'm Diane Gusto. Welcome to the silver spleen, Ian's podcast, excuse me, today. I want to talk about friendships, you know. There are many types of friendships that people can experience and they're all important at all very relevant to a well live life, you know, first off their acquaintances. You know, these are the people, you know, but you don't want necessarily close with. Maybe you see him at the coffee shop occasionally, and you have
a little friendly conversation? Station but you don't usually go very deep. It's more like a polite acknowledgment of each other then there are the Casual
friends. Maybe these are the people you see more regularly than the acquaintances and maybe have a bit more in common with them you know kind of like the person you might take a yoga class with or go cycling with maybe you don't confide in them much or with each other and you don't spend too much time together out of those specific contexts.
Then you are your close friends, you know, these are the people with whom, you have a deeper connection, you share personal information, you confide in each other. You spend time together outside of specific context just because you want to get together, maybe have a long history or you've gone through significant life events together.
Then of course, there are the best friends, you know, these are the people, you have an, especially strong bond with you may consider them like family or their your ride and died, buddy, you share a lot in common. You support each other through thick. And thin then, of course, these days we have online friends. These are the people you meet and interact with solely online. Now, you probably share a lot of interests, or, maybe hobbies and you communicate with them
through social media. Tia forms or other digital platforms. Then there are work friends. These are the people that you mainly interact with in a work setting. You may share professional interests or goals and have a good working relationship. But you may not necessarily spend a lot of time outside of work with these people. You know, some friends are exit
aleksel and confidence. They listened carefully and offer comfort as we deal with our problems and just the day-to-day aspects of Life. Some of our friends offer concrete and practical help. Like those are the ones who will help us the car, breaks down, or maybe Cooks a meal, when we're not feeling ill or picks up the kids and drives them to wherever they need to go. You know, when we're on
available, Some friends. Well, they offer distractions when we need, these are the ones that might call. Or meet us just to make us laugh. They give us perspective. What we might not have it in our sights very clearly. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on our friendships. We think in terms of one size fits all, you know, when in fact that puts pressure on ourselves, it puts pressure on the relationship, you know?
It's hard, but we have to remember that while we're living our lives and going through all kinds of challenges. So are our friends. So if we can remember, What are friends do? What they do offer when they can were less likely to feel disappointed? When it feels like, they haven't fulfilled our expectations of the friendship or whatever we needed in the moment.
Friends, come in all forms, and if you have one or two that are actually fulfilling all your wishes to consider yourself, exceptionally lucky because it's far away wiser to create a collective of friends in understand that all are coping with life, just like you are doing, this will help you appreciate everyone's strengths and generosity when offered thanks for joining me. I'm Diane Rasel. Also, known as silver disappearance, and this is the silver to speed and spot. Yes.