Sitting in silence with a friend without it feeling weird means you’ve both stopped performing. That’s rare. Keep it.

Most company runs on continuous output, each person supplying jokes and updates to keep the thing afloat. When two people can stop supplying and nothing collapses, it means neither of you is being kept around for entertainment value. That is a fact about the friendship rather than a mood, and it is not common.

Think about who you can be quiet with, in a car or on a couch, without reaching for your phone. Then do something unremarkable with that person soon, like a drive or an errand. Those friendships survive on ordinary time together far better than on big occasions.