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How to Be the Friend Everyone Wants

For the friends that really matter, anyway.

Lucas Hawthorne
3 min readJan 10, 2020

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Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash

Have you ever witnessed or heard about the success of a friend and felt envious of their victory?

Or maybe you wished that you were the one to win rather than them?

If so, today I’d like to talk to you about being supportive for your friends rather than envious and destructive towards them.

True friendships are not built on feeling resentful when a friend wins. They’re built on celebrating wins *together.*

Meaning, you don’t envy your friends when they win. Heck, you don’t stand idly by either. You go celebrate with them and congratulate them!

I’ve talked about this before:

People inherently progress through life at different speeds, which means that some people will achieve certain things sooner than others.

It shouldn’t come to you as a surprise, therefore, if a friend of yours happens to hit a…

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Lucas Hawthorne
Lucas Hawthorne

Written by Lucas Hawthorne

A guide to life and self-improvement, brought to you by a magazine-published Gen Z-er. I'm not on Medium anymore, find me here: https://www.lucashawthorne.com/

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