photo brad edwards friendships sort rough months jason kind misleading plenty wonderful people lives call project couple people play cards share meal past year friends favorite-any time-anywhere-go-to-without-thinking people lives realize writing friends sound high school times life kind friend living town times college happy human beings we're oriented needing friends people geared intense friendships people cases friendships involved husband loving halves couple cases happy hanging two-guy- two-girl-pairs friendships involved eating dinner week spontaneously calling babysitter reason birthday celebrate show adventure over-romanticizing best-friendship mentioned jason feeling vague sadness feeling sort heading direction seeking replacement here's observed human nature good lose impulse replacement pronto impulse pursuing friends work low-range friendship radar intentional missed wrote posts striving intentional intentional party retracing steps original idea morning found drawing line friend issue intentional concept jason driving downtown talking plans weekend thought occurred friends open time opportunities invite people depth nominal friendships automatic go-to friends call time feel hanging people we're forced open creative social life mislead thinking perennial glass-half-full kind girl kind who's finding silver linings taking lemons making lemonade intentional open past weeks helped positive potential things negative surface feels good 