This week I realized there are some very important types of friends in your life: the kind that will do boring life with you. We know the importance of friends who will be with you through hard, tough times, and of course the friends who we love in our easy fun times. But I think what might be understated is the friend who does really plain life things with you: taking you to the mechanic, driving you to the doctor's, picking you up from the airport, helping you pack. Taking time out of their day to just help you out.
The fun, challenging, and hopefully not disappointing part is when one of these comes up and you sort through the list in your mind, thinking of who you would feel comfortable asking. As a staff worker, I think I'm on the lucky side, because covering for each other and stepping in for these little things just kinda happens in your college phase of life. But I hope even years down the road, I will still find friends who will be there for these kinda boring but so practical things.
The follow-up question would be: How often are we willing to ask for help in this? Because alternatives are available--waiting the few hours at the shop, taking a taxi or rental, moving boxes by yourself--but maybe one of the reasons we don't know if we have these friends is that we don't think we need them.
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