East Meets West 290 – Anti-metheus

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How time flies, and things slow down at the same time. Why we pick where we live. Making new friendships. How self-driving cars reduce psychoses. Stranger danger. Also Prometheus.

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This might might be more a tangent to your discussion on friends. I’m currently in high school and as the people say the more you mature, the more you begin to value your friends more and more. That is definitely true, when I culminated from elementary school, I really didn’t miss my friends. But, when I culminated from middle school, it was a whole different story. I miss those friends greatly. At the same time though, with Facebook and social media, you don’t really say goodbye permanently these days. You can still talk to these old middle school friends in a whim. Overall, I think social media is changing this, making good byes less of a serious deal. I’m sure glad of it. Though, true we aren’t as close friends as we use to be, but I still talk to them regularly.

Also, more of a question to the older and wiser you guys. Some people say, that the friends you make in college are your life long friends. Is that true? I’m melancholy about that as I will defiantly be sad to bid farewell to my current high school friends. What are your personal experience with that Roger and Tom?

– Abner
David Nelson

I wanted to chime in on the subject of friends, or more generally friendship. Since graduating from high school in the mid-80′s I’ve lived all over the place and have not stayed in any one city or state for more than 7 years. That brings with it some unique challenges, not the least of which is being able to keep friends for any length of time. While listening to this episode of East Meets West I came to the conclusion that I have no “best” friends. I have a lot of friends and/or acquaintances but not a single one or two people that I’d consider closer than any other. Does that say something about me, or is it just a fact of life that as we grow older our definition of friendship changes? Also, thank God for social networks! Without them it would’ve been a lot harder to stay in touch with the friends I have made in the 7 or 8 different places that I’ve lived over the years.

Great show guys!