How to be happier - 02x22: Make best friends
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Life is too difficult to waste on complicated people. Do not seek to fix people, there are many more people who will be happy to share with you.
Make time to spend with your friends and the people who are important to you. Your personal relationships will give you your best experiences in life.
Give priority to the quality of your relationships over quantity. Make sure that your best friends are better human beings than you and their virtues are greater than yours. Eventually you will become what your best friends are. If your friends are happy, you will be a happy person.
If you consider yourself the smartest in a room, show and share what you think you know. If they lend you a car, return it with a full tank. If you are loaned a house, be a good steward and return it clean.
Don't let your relationships go on automatic pilot. Leave insignificant talks for strangers and try to have meaningful conversations with people who are significant to you.
Make sure that person important to you knows their value in your life. Entropy is just around the corner, and all structures decay over time, the only thing that can save you from decay is value.
Keep your promises. Treat that person with courage and don't waste a great relationship for a momentary distaste.