The Caring Friend Great friendships come from great hearts tempered by love and suffering who have come to the place where the well-being of the other is more important than their own concerns. The twenty-first-century Western world is not rich in deep friendships. Our individualism and self-preoccupation have left us so self-focused and self-concerned that we are imploding. We have little sense that we are well loved and cared for. St. Bernard, writing to the parents