Your friends won’t all live ten minutes away forever. The lazy hangouts are the ones you’ll miss most.

Geography is doing a lot of work in your friendships right now. Being ten minutes apart means you can see each other with no plan, no travel and no reason, and nearly all the easy hanging around in your life depends on that. Once people scatter, a friendship has to be chosen on purpose instead of happening automatically. Some survive that and some quietly do not.

Use the easy version while you still have it. Say yes to the pointless meet-ups this week, the ones with no occasion attached. Those are the first ones to stop being possible.