Friends are some of the most important people in anyone's life, having good relationships outside of your family is very healthy since many people aren't reliant on family and are distant as well as all different emotional distances from their family. Friends for me are experiences, enjoying a person for who they are when they are themselves is such a great voyeurism that I would recommend to anyone (wow its a whole human person that's really cool). Once again intimacy comes into it, being emotionally close and mentally close to another human is a wonderful thing. With this comes support and stability, valuing friends for more than a good time is something I think gives a person great depth and value in themselves. Superficiality is not a nice aspect in a person and something I see in none of my friends and hope I never do. Seeing and being only a surface is a very fragile and hollow way to go about things, obviously some people find it hard to share but in that case you just need to find the right people.
Peng Juice.