I too have been guilty of overusing the word “friend”, perhaps out of a desire to make it seem like I have more friends than I really do.
But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become less interested in the quantity of friends than the quality of friends. It’s still distressing when people drop out of my life, but I’d like to think that the people that remain are the people who will remain with me. https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/111486245658252878
