Friends that age well

Old friendships don't need material. They need time — the kind where nobody brought an agenda. You aren't catching up so much as resuming.

The warning sign for a friendship is when the conversation becomes a news exchange. News means you haven't been part of each other's days. What you want is the opposite: shared texture so routine that it hardly registers.

The friendships that age well are not the ones that survive drama. They're the ones that survive the long quiet, and start again exactly where they left off.