Cherish houses on fire

At some point in childhood you figure out that not all friends are created equal.

With some people you just seem to get on like a house on fire and with others it’s like drawing blood from a stone.

In some scenarios you have to make do. Like if you’re at a summer camp. You know these connections aren’t super strong but you compromise and get by for the short term.

Then eventually you go to college and the social scene is off the scale. You don’t have to compromise, you can hang out with like minded people all the time and have a great time.

But then you go out into the big bad world and your best friends don’t get the same job or live in a different country or spend more time with their partners now and you find yourself reverting back to compromising again as you now have to spend most of your waking moments with colleagues or your partners friends or the parents of your child’s friends who are by no means bad people but it makes you long for those relationships where you get on like a house on fire.