Museum Teman Baik

For many of us, friendships feel deeply important throughout childhood and adolescence. As time goes by, life confronts us with new complexities — and with personal relationships that seem more urgent to nurture: with family, partners, or children. In those moments, our closest friends may slowly step back, drift away, and turn into strangers.

Yet for many others, friendship becomes a refuge — a place to lean on, a source of rescue in our most fragile moments. Like life itself, adult friendships reveal a wide range of dynamics: some are harsh, others nurturing and protective. Some are chaotic and turbulent, others calm. Some endure; others end too soon.

Through these stories, ten writers explore the complexities of friendship in adulthood — how it endures or falls apart when tested by the tensions that arise from differences in class, choices, and paths in life.
We weave these tales for you, like a small museum that holds things once precious in their time — or that continue to grow, now and in the days to come.