We spend our free time with friends. We can relax with them and allow our masks to fall. It is all right to be ourselves and we can do what we like, we are not constrained by rules. But friendship also implies commitment. A true friend feels responsible for his friends, during bad times as well as good, in success and failure, humiliation and sorrow. So there is commitment. Friendship without commitment is not true friendship.

- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p. 173