When you’re older, the friends who knew you before you figured anything out become priceless. Keep a few from now.

There is a kind of friend you cannot acquire later, because the qualification is having been around before you had any answers. They remember the clumsy version, which means nothing has to be explained from the beginning. Those relationships get harder to replace with every year that passes.

Keep two or three people from this period on purpose rather than by accident. That means occasional contact for no reason at all, starting now.