Dear LPG,

As we get older and especially after the year we have just travelled through I think that we have all learned a little bit more about our friends.  There is something about talking to people without being able to do it face to face which allows us to learn things about those people that we would never have found out while talking to them in a group over a cuppa.   The other thing is that there has been so much more time to indulge in deeper conversations consciously, or subconsciously.  More of us have worked at stretching the opportunity to talk to anyone who will listen in a bid to finding ways to make the rest of our relatively long lonely days a bit shorter.

But covid-19 or not, as we get older we are much more likely to lose our best friends more frequently than those who are younger, which is a sad reality of life. 

The solution is to find another best friend but you can only do that so many times and good friends will never take the place of best friends.  It was these thoughts which got me thinking about alternatives and this   was one that I found mentioned in more than one place on the internet. 

While having friends is a really important component of nearly all of the species assigned to our world, perhaps the best substitute for a best friend is learning to be your own best friend to an extent.  

I have found some internet suggestions on this subject and, having read a few, hope that sharing what I have read might be helpful to some of my fellow LPG readers…

MM, Catford

MM offers us her findings…

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