This is the philosophy of one of my best friend from high school, It made a lot of sense when he told me, and so it's stuck with me ever since. He said that having friends is like inviting a whole lot of people onto a jumbo jet where you are the Captain. Like a commercial airliner, there are different classes of seats. The general friends and acquittance who make up the most majority of the people you will meet in your life, they get seated in the Economy class, where the services are standardised. There's the Business Class where closer friends hang out, and generally enjoy better catering and hotter air-hostess. But the most precious people in your life, you keep them close in the First Class, where upon opening the Captain's cabinet, you attend to them with most of your time and energy.
The curious thing is that you will never be able to write a set rule or protocol on deciding who gets to be in the First Class, it's instinctual. You meet someone, exchange pleasantries, then they start to seat themselves into the different classes. Most people will gladly stay in the Economy Class, but once in a blue moon, you will bump into another person who you will invite to the First Class straight away.
Sometimes when you arrive at certain airports in life, some of the passengers may depart and new ones will board. Even your First Class passengers may leave you in pursuit of their own destination, but you'd always reserve an empty seat for them. For you know that someday when they'd like to fly with you again, there is always a seat for them.
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