Some people think that they don't necessarily need friends, or that they don't necessarily need love, or pretty much don't believe in either one, because friends and love can disappoint a person, and even worse can hurt a person, so typically after having suffered so, they thereby emotionally remove themselves from others, so as to not be hurt or damaged, ever again. In point of fact, life without love or friends is not going to be a wonderful life, because human beings are meant to share their joy with others, and further are meant to be friendly, neighborly, and loving one to another.
This thus signifies, that we actually do need friends and love, of which, no doubt, in order to have these valuable things, necessitates commitment on our part to others, as well as the taking on of risk, and thereby exposing some degree of vulnerability one to another. Far too many people are far too concerned, with protecting their feelings from ever getting hurt, that they do not give themselves a fair chance, to take in the friendliness and love of another person, because they fear that by doing so, that they will be subsequently hurt and therefore they are therefore overly guarded with their feelings.
No doubt, some friends will disappoint us, at least from time-to-time, and no doubt, some that profess their love for us will be false in what they have professed to us, but that doesn't mean, that we should thereby shut the door on all others, because of the faults and the mistakes of the few. Further to the point, each one of us, is regrettably, an imperfect human being, filled with human frailties and error, of which, because it is so difficult to self-evaluate oneself, we often do not recognize that part of the issues that we have with others in regards to love and friendliness, lies really at our own feet, and therefore with our own errors and mistakes, which we honestly have not completely own up to.
Those that wish to live within a construct, in which every friend is true, no matter what comes; and everyone that represents love to us, expresses that love unconditionally, and with no expectation in return, are clearly desiring what so represents the ideal friendliness and love. To therefore only accept that and none other, will surely represent a lonely life, for few, if any, are able to demonstrate such, on an irrevocable basis, one to another. Rather, we should be far more accommodating of all those that are friendly and loving, and should be that way also in return; in the recognition that though we might well desire perfect friends and perfect love, that it is in the trying, that we still are able to find good friends, and by being a good friend in return, makes for a better life that is well worth living.
Those that truly want joy in their life, have to find someone and something outside of their own ego, that they are able to appreciate and to accept as they are. From that, all sorts of good thereby occurs, in which, by being good one to another, we become that which we were meant to become, when we were first created, by Love.