A good friend is a lane-assist. They nudge you back before you drift into something you’ll regret.

Certain friends are valuable precisely because they interrupt. You cannot see your own trajectory clearly from inside it, and someone standing slightly outside will spot the drift long before it becomes a wreck. The correction is small when it comes early and enormous when it comes late. It only works if they are willing to risk the moment of friction.

Give one or two people explicit permission to tell you when you are drifting. Then do the harder half, which is not punishing them for it. Be that voice for a friend once this week, briefly and without a lecture.