Radha Agrawal

So it's so critical that we continue to put our laptops down and keep our word and go to those dinners with our friends and say yes to the dance floor and say yes to adventure.

Because at the end of the day, no amount of success will mean anything if there's no one to celebrate it with, right?

That's true.

So column one was all the qualities I was looking for in a friend.

So I wanted friends who talked about ideas and not each other.

I wanted friends who said, yeah, bleep that out, to life.

I wanted friends who really took care of themselves and took care of each other.

I wanted friends who were interesting and interested, who were good listeners.

I wanted friends...

So I wrote down everything I was looking for in a friend, which was kind of vulnerable because there's so much shame around saying I don't belong or there's so much shame around writing down the qualities.

It just feels desperate for some reason in today's society.

But if we just removed all of that stigma, because there is stigma around FOMO, fear of missing out and fear of being left out.

You don't tell people, yeah, I was left out from the party and it really hurt.

We're so proud.

We don't really talk about that.

But FOMO is a concept I talk about in my book quite a bit, which is fear of being left out.

which is a more subversive, negative version of FOMO.

And then JOMO is joy of missing out, which is the joy of missing out and having the confidence to know there's other things to do.

But so column two is all the qualities I don't want in a friend.

So I don't want friends who are negative Nellies, lazies, shoulder shruggers,