Friendship - a curious insight

Yesterday I was talking to a friend. She was wondering why i called her up after all this time. I mean, she's married and all and she was wondering this because we were not in the same class or anything at college. There was nothing common between us except that we had a common friend, whom at point was romantically linked with her. Somehow I get the feeling that she thought that I was trying to spy on her for my friend. Well, that's not the reason at all. Her break up with him was none of my concern and this does not imply that I should also break my tie of friendship. She was telling me a story also yesterday on the phone which goes like this:

"Once I was asked to dream that I was going through a forest. During this I was asked what sort of trees I would like in the forest. I told the concerned person that I would like to see huge, eucalyptus trees. Then I happened to chance on a rough road which took me to a wooden shack. As I was reaching the shack, I happened to chance upon an old rusted key. "

Upto this point I was following the narrative of my friend. Now the person telling her about this dream asked her," Would you keep the key?" Now since this key was also hypothetically posed to me, I thought, " Yes sure, why not? What harm does it create. It might turn out to be an asset later on". My friend's take was that the key would turn to be a liability later on. Now the person told her that the old key signified her realtionships with her friends. She was a person who did not make much of the relationships with her friends whereas even though I never valued it, I thought that it would be an asset later on during the jouney of life. Now her justification in to the key being a liabilty was that girls ( in India) do not hav pockets and hence there is a high chance of losing it from one's hands and holding it would also being uncomfortable after a period of time as in her lifetime, she has lost a lot of stuff while carrying it in her hand. Now that got me wondering. " Is this with everything we do in our life. Are we uncomfortable with holding something in our hands, like maybe another person's hand?" It might be because man as a being does not want to share in other's despair, but would definitely share in their happiness. This is a sort of behaviour in which man always tries to forget his and other's despairs. It could be an attempt to always be optimistic and not dwell on the pessimistic mode of life. But these are our friends we are talking about. This is getting heavy now. So I am signing off on that thought.