"A friend loves you even when he knows you" (Jorge Luis Borges)

A friend knows us well, but he doesn't stand there with his finger raised, like a schoolteacher, ready to blast us with his judgments. Friendship is a mutual discovery under the sign of love, intimacy, and tolerance. And also of natural disappointments for what we didn't anticipate. But precisely when unexpected, less than desirable discoveries arise, friendship is put to the test.

• Friendship doesn't imply judgment. Judgments about people are always hateful, especially if they are moral, and should be avoided in any case. In the case of friendship, a sort of "motion of confidence" is triggered, and the friend rises above their flaws. Even the worst ones.
• Friendship is tolerance. Ultimately, with friends, we practice tolerance every day. We practice accepting diversity, not taking our own opinion as the absolute truth, and contradicting others when we disagree.
• Friendship is cultivated. Distance and absence, even for long periods, do not compromise friendship, unlike indifference. All the more reason to cultivate friendship, even with small gestures, small signals. And along this journey, always be prepared to discover something unexpected in the other. For better or for worse, as in life in its entirety, full of light and shade.
• Friendship isn't about changing oneself or others. That's not its mission. If anything, it's about building tolerance, listening, doubts that lead to the truth.
• Friendship has no limits. It's a common trait of all true love. The lack of limits doesn't mean a lack of loyalty and respect, but rather it outlines the possibility of an ever-widening perimeter within which the complicity that binds true lovers is consolidated. friends.
• Friendship is not exclusive. Some friends are dearer, others less so. Friends we see constantly, and others who disappear for long periods. But even if, like any love, friendship were to arouse jealousy, let's protect ourselves from this risk with the understanding that no friendship has the inherent right to exclude others.