“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”
I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.
Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.
“Shared joy is double joy, but shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
This!!! That is what friendship is. It’s community. A community comes together and shows up for each other.
Last year, I spent all day chiseling baseboards out of concrete walls and filling holes in said walls for someone who wasn’t even my friend, but my partner’s friend.
But she is part of our circle, of our little community. So we show up. She would do the same for us.
