If you can only be friends when you agree, you’re not friends. You’re a fan club.

Agreement is a low bar for a relationship. A friendship that survives only while two people hold identical opinions is not really attached to either person, it is attached to a position, and the moment one of you changes your mind the whole thing shows itself as membership rather than affection. Real friends can be wrong in front of each other. That is the feature, not the flaw.

Say one honest disagreement out loud this week to somebody you like, kindly and without trying to win. Then stay for the rest of the conversation. A friendship that can hold a difference is sturdier than one built on matching.