You say, looks like I made friends." So u won the jackpot... finally!
Now let's not betray them; friends are friends because they Feel your pain and want YOU to have a 'good' life ... even if theirs is not. You see that, @Jeff? That's why Aristotle said long ago, "life without a friend is not worth living." I did not believe that so I looked up the Stanford Encyclopedia ...and there it was.

But let's keep it simple: The worst often happens to us when we do not have someone who Cares how you Really Are. Not the kind, u know what I am talking about, 'I'm fine,' You? 'Ya, ok.' So that's why I am saying u got the jackpot.

Lest u think I,
I'm just another Mayo cybersound, here's what the former head of the NIMH, Dr Insel (book author, Healing) has said: we need 3 Ps to deal with the issue of homelessness-addiction-overdose deaths: Place to live, Purpose in life, and People who care.

Here's something even more beautiful about friends: Mutuality: u can't be friends with someone who does not want to be yours. You see how pure, authentic, sincere and therefore healing and enjoyable such relationship is!

So now you know You are already ahead than most of us in this lonely world of ours; so latch to your moment of bliss.

And wish us the same.