Today, Dennis was hosting his "Happiness Hour", devoted to exploring various facets of contentment and positivity in life. His specific topic today was friendship and how and why friendships end. I was fascinated by his callers and their stories. What most captivated me were the stories of decades-long friendships in which eventually one friend encouraged the other to take a course of action that violated that person's moral compass, for example, to actually take a test for one's child so that he wouldn't fail a college course, or to abandon one's family and "just go be happy".
There is a saying that "Friends want the best for each other and bring out the best in each other." Several of the calls I heard on the show today seemed to fly in the face of that conventional wisdom. I'd like to encourage you, if faced with a friendship dilemma, to consider whether your friend has your best and truest interests at heart, or has some other agenda.
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