Overthinking, philosophising, ruminating on topics like friendship is fuel for depression. It's not bad per se, but it's not solving any issues. Just think of the times you had fun with friends, that's what friendship is. All this deep, near metaphysical thought on friendship simply does nothing, just as thinking hard and deep about food does not make it taste better.
Love, food, friendship, music, you can talk, think, write about it, but it does very little for the actual experience of them. If anything, it makes you less able to experience them because you're too busy anaylysing it.
> but it does very little for the actual experience of them
I _so_ disagree. For music as an example, I do believe that people that are really into music get much more out of it than people who aren't. They probably don't enjoy "easy-to-listen-to" music as much, but they enjoy some other music much more deeply. Same for food, same for all art, and _maybe why not_ same for love and friendship
The issue with ruminating on social issues is that there is a very high risk that you go down the wrong path, and that it makes your life more difficult. As a society, our written down understanding of human behavior is still vastly inferior to the tacit understanding you get from lived experience.
Maybe if you are happy with your life and friendships, philosophizing a bit can make it even better. But if you are unhappy it can be a trap.
Love, food, friendship, music, you can talk, think, write about it, but it does very little for the actual experience of them. If anything, it makes you less able to experience them because you're too busy anaylysing it.