Friends who can laugh with you after you fail are the ones who’ll still be there when you win.

Failure sorts your circle faster than anything else does. Some people get awkward around it, some go missing, and a few can sit next to you afterward and find the funny part without pretending nothing happened. That last group is not making light of it. They are showing you their interest was never conditional on how things turned out.

Notice who came near you after the last thing that went badly. Those are the ones to call when something goes well. Being easy to be around on a bad day is rarer than being fun on a good one.