The key isn't to try to have a tons of friends. The key is to have three or four really, really good friends, and then, of course, plenty of people who aren't necessarily friends but are fun to be around, or result in a mutually beneficial relationship, or share common interests.
You don't need to be less friendly. You just need to nurture the most important relationships in your life. Think about what you can do that will help the people closest to you be happier, and then do it. Real friends see "care" as a verb. They act on their feelings. They step in, step up, and sometimes step outside their comfort zone to do something selfless, just because they can.
Top Stories. Top Videos. Getty Images. All of which means "friendly" and "friend" are two very different things. You care about your casual friends, but with casual friends, "care" is a noun. World Canada Local. Do you want to live forever? Survey reveals what people would do if they could. Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National. Search Submit search Quick Search.
Comments Close comments menu. Video link. Close X. Click to scroll back to top of the page Back to top. Posted March 28, pm. View image in full screen. Asked whether they, personally, would choose to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and live to be or more, a majority of U. There is, at present, no method of slowing the aging process and extending average life expectancies to years or more. The survey, conducted from March 21 to April 8, , among a nationally representative sample of 2, adults, examines public attitudes about aging, health care, personal life satisfaction, possible medical advances including radical life extension and other bioethical issues.
The telephone survey was carried out on cell phones and landlines, in all 50 states, with an overall margin of error for the full sample of plus or minus 2. The findings suggest that the U. Americans also appear to be generally optimistic as they look toward their own futures, including old age.
And while about a fifth of all U. The median ideal life span is 90 years — about 11 years longer than the current average U. The public also is optimistic that some scientific breakthroughs will occur in the next few decades. But there also is some wariness about new medical treatments. But measuring opinion about scientific breakthroughs that may or may not come to pass is difficult. Since the scientific breakthroughs are uncertain and the public does not know much about this field, the wording of the survey question focuses on the result — much longer life spans — and is deliberately vague about how, exactly, this would be achieved.
At this early stage, public reaction to the idea of radical life extension is both ambivalent and skeptical. But most doubt that such a breakthrough will occur anytime soon. The public also is skeptical about the fairness of these kinds of potential medical interventions.
But two-thirds think that in practice, only wealthy people would have access to the treatments. Most Americans also foresee other negative implications. Views on the likely impact of radical life extension on society vary somewhat by age, race and ethnicity.
Blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to see radical life extension as a positive development for society. And younger adults are more inclined than those 50 and older to say that radical life extension would be a good thing for society.
But there are few differences in opinions across other social and demographic groups. Men and women are about equally likely to say that radical life extension would be a good thing for society.
There are only modest differences across education and income groups, with those who have less formal education and lower incomes somewhat more inclined to say radical life extension would be a positive development for society.
Older adults account for a growing share of the U. The new Pew Research survey finds that the public views this trend in American society as more positive than negative. The overall average life expectancy in the U. The median ideal life span is 90 years.
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