When we were young friendship happened to us. Believing that friendship will “just happen to us” is an immature perspective on adult friendship
The wish-dream of friendship is a hindrance to real, biblical friendship. When we hold an ideal of friendship in our minds, believing it's attainable, we hold a standard above the heads of the real men and women God has placed in our lives and then wonder why we’re constantly disappointed by the realities, complexities, and difficulties in our relationships.