types of friends

is it a good thing to have friends who look up to you? yeah of course ; and it feels nice to be someone's mentor

(but sometimes i feel dubious about some of them, like i fear that one of my mentee-friends is just taking my ideas and espousing them as her own to sound intelligent; i fear she lacks the mental faculty to make ideas her own...she is too emotionally-driven...she wants to merely be on the "right" side of things and she acts like a dot in an angry mob...she lacks sincerity. a lot of people do. a lot of people lack: intuition, sincerity, selbstdenkenfähigkeit; the latter of which can almost be forgiven because it isn't everyone's path in life to think philosophically. most people live by a philosophy, but did not think it through. and somehow that's ok, because it has to be, because they were not given such faculties. monkeys and dogs aren't either, and they're perfectly fine. but the problem arises when they pretend to have these faculties and waste everyone's time with fake discourse, when they're just acting out a script)

but i feel there is a pocket left to be filled with peers (the images -- the literal drawings -- from "how to love" by alex norris filled me with ideas about peers)

where are they?

we're leading such different lives.