friendship

One of my favourite quotations is by socrates the greek philospher, "be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue to be firm and constant. friendship is simply the condition of being friends. It sounds so simple but if you look at it, its more complex than that. why is it that by the age of thirty, we barely have friends and yet we started off with so many friends we would take a whole day to name them.
It's a mystery am yet to encounter but trust me by the time i turn thirty i donot want to be a loner who later turns psychotic like your locked in a penetiary and isolated for crimes that cannot be revealed.
Do we really have to get to that? i recall growing up when everyone was my friend but by high school, cracks had started to emerge in many of them which ended in cliques that did more harm than good. You didnt care how detached you become as long as you rode the cool wave until life started like it always does, separated and broke you up in the end you couldnot trust anybody and resorted to imaginary friends like jonny that character in ed, edd and eddy cartoon series.
I see a lot of people being lonely with no one to talk too but it doesnt have to be this way, there is need to build on the friendships that are already there, they say you never know what you have until it's gone but why let it be gone? if something is special we should invest in it so that by the age of 70 we sit back and reminisce about the mischief we all got up back in the good ol' days...