Being picky about friends isn’t snobby. It’s knowing that who’s around you shapes your days.

Whoever you spend your hours with sets the texture of those hours, and a life is mostly hours rather than milestones. Choosing carefully is practical rather than snobbish: you are deciding what gets talked about on the bus, what counts as funny, whether effort gets mocked or respected around you. People are an environment as much as a choice.

Look at who you spend the most time with and ask how you feel afterwards. Give your spare hours to the ones who leave you better, and let the rest thin out naturally.