Friendship can survive changing interests when affection was never built entirely on activities.

Friendships built entirely on an activity end when the activity does. The team disbands, the job changes, the hobby fades, and there turns out to be nothing else in the room. Where affection grew alongside the shared thing rather than out of it, the relationship simply changes format. What matters is whether you ever moved beyond the context that introduced you.

With friends you only see in one setting, try meeting somewhere else once. A meal, a walk, a conversation with no agenda. That single move often decides whether the friendship survives the next change.