Hang out with them have fun with them and talk to them, but expect them to not be there in your life if something drastic or important happens. If you get cance

Hang out with them have fun with them and talk to them, but expect them to not be there in your life if something drastic or important happens. If you get cancer, expect everyone to eventually abandon you. Despite this, you still need these superficial interactions throughout life, it's part of being human. You may disagree, but like the op, I'm older so hear me out. The thing with younger people is that they don't realize that they are already doing this. You don't know it yet but 99 percent of your friends are superficial. Not 90 percent, 99. What you will realize is that friends overall are much less reliable and loyal than you thought. Younger people place greater weight in their friendships without realizing the true superficiality behind almost all of it. One day the realization will hit you and hopefully eventually you'll realize that it's human nature and even you yourself is like this, you just don't realize it yet. But what's also important to realize is that despite the superficiality of all these friendships it's still important to cycle through them and have them around in your life to be happy. It's about the moment to moment interactions with people. The illusion of true friendship is what matters here. Accept the illusion knowing that it will fade and that people and you yourself will move on. That is not to say that "true friendship" doesn't exist. It does, but it is far more rare, and it's not surprising at all for a person to find out one day that they have no true friends at all.