FRIENDSHIP: Practical philosophy club Stockholm 🇸🇪

Dear all! See you on Thursday at 19 h at Källarbyn, Stockholm Old town. The subject is FRIENDSHIP. Here comes some questions to start the discussion with:
What makes someone a true friend?
“Friendship is a priceless gift that brightens the best days and shares the load of hard ones.” — Cicero
Friendship is surely one of the most beautiful forms of human connection. Yet we may have very different ideas about what a friend is, what we owe our friends, and what we can reasonably expect from them.
1. What does friendship mean to you?
• What is most important to you in a friendship: acceptance, time, care, loyalty, honesty, support, shared interests — or something else?
• What makes someone a friend rather than simply an acquaintance?
• Is friendship unconditional, or does every friendship have conditions?
• Do we choose our friends because they are similar to us, or because they bring something different into our lives?
2. Friendship, closeness and boundaries:
• How close should a friendship be? Can friends become too close or too dependent on each other?
• How much time and attention should we reasonably expect from a friend?
• Does a good friend always support you — or should a good friend sometimes challenge you, disagree with you, or tell you an uncomfortable truth?
• Can you remain friends when your values, lifestyles or life choices become very different?
Trust, disappointment and forgiveness
• How important is confidentiality between friends? If a friend reveals your secret, is the friendship over — or should friendship also include forgiveness?
• What other behaviours would make you end a friendship?
• If a friendship becomes one-sided, how long should we continue investing in it?
• Do we sometimes expect more loyalty from our friends than we are prepared to give ourselves?
3. Friendship through life:
• Why does making new friends often become more difficult with age?
• Or do we simply need fewer friendships as we grow older?
• Why do some fr