I’m grateful for my first friend group. Every time we get together, we pick up right where we left off. We can be serious with each other, but we can also sit around talking shit for hours. We are as close as friends get, and yet, we’ve always had separate lives. We played different sports, attended different colleges, interested in different things, and now, we all live in different cities.

Friends can become overdependent, even muddy each other. Not us. We always respected each other’s space and never judged. We share the confidence that each person knows exactly what they need to succeed — and only them.

It doesn’t sound like much, but that’s when friendship becomes power.

Never judge your friends. Never, never, never.