Antoun Issa was only in his 20s when an older workmate helped reframe his thinking about friendship forever
I was cycling through friends like toilet paper when a colleague declared: ‘Spend quality time with quality people’In this series, Guardian writers share the best advice they have received and how it has impacted their lives
fresh from a divorce, declared to me in our shared office in Beirut, “I’m only going to spend quality time with quality people. No more killing time with anyone for the sake of it,” a flicker suddenly twitched in my naive mid-20s brain. It took this man more than half a century to realise so much time had been lost on people who added little value to his life
Some blossomed into deeper friendships but many fell away. If the objective is to party and get drunk, did it matter who made up the team for the night? But when it becomes clear that despite knowing 100 faces, few were truly worthy of the descriptor “friend”, time suddenly seemed more precious. “Lift is too short,” the man rounded off, as if veiling a subtle piece of advice to not wait until you’re in your 50s to appreciate the value of time.
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