I recently reconnected with a good friend I had lost touch with. It had been more than fifteen years since we had seen each other, but as is so often the case with good friends, we were instantly together again. It was as if the last time we’d talked was only a day or two ago, but since that time he had lived abroad, his family had gone through many changes, he had worked sev (...)
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THE DECLINE OF FRIENDSHIP
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It's amazing how long friendships do in fact last. We have college friends with whom we gather every year for a pilgrimage to spring training baseball. I have very close associates that join me in being model train nuts. Even though we sometimes violently disagree about politics we accord each other continuing respect for each person's point of view. We've lost two associates to death and mourned together. My wife has deep friendships in her volunteer activities and with a sorority of rather older women. It is fiendships that keep us on our toes and from dying of boredom and 'sofa rot.' Too bad our church does not more strongly celebrate it as a virtue.