Friendships have to be nurturing and uplifting rather than toxic and demeaning. Often times, it becomes so hard for us to build friendships from scratch that we settle as soon as we find a group of people around us. Even if there are no mutual interests, we are scared of breaking friendships and cutting out people from our lives because we don’t want to feel isolated and lonely.But we are only fooling ourselves and living an illusion. If our friendships are not serving us and our well being, then we should let them go. A great by-product of committing to a life of minimalism is that I have cut out all the unnecessary friendships from my life that were not serving for my greater good and contributing to the achievement of my goals.We do need friends and a sense of community, but not at the cost of our well being. Our friends and associations determine our success, and it’s our responsibility to be careful while choosing them.