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Bring out your dead!

That’s why you don’t hang out with people you don’t enjoy being around. Friendship is ultimately selfish and greedy - relationships in general are.
 
You offer your time and self to others and become a part of their lives because they also give something in return that you appreciate. They are either witty, or have a view on the world that you share, or you have similar tastes in videogames - friendship is about selfish desires to spend time with someone you like and want to spend time with because you enjoy what they bring and enhance upon your life.
 
You don’t do it, on a healthy and constructive way, to those that you dislike. Being socially awkward and not managing to make friends easily like Twilight here is a different case than the one Applejack specifies. AJ sees the friendships Twilight makes as a contract of some sort - playing “pretend to be friends” with others for the sake of magical powers and to save the day, not for the sake of having actual friends.
 
However, she fails to see that Twilight is merely the kind of person that enjoys being around herself more often than with others. She is entirely comfortable spending time with no one else, and thus, has a difficult time starting friendships. However, by spending time with the other girls and getting to know them, she realizes that they bring something inherently missing from her loner life with their individual views and experiences. Twilight appreciates and genuinely makes friends with the others despite her initial dismissal of the idea, and that makes her grow.
 
AJ sees it all as just “business and usual”. She claims Twilight wants her to be her friend for the sake of the magic instead of actual friendship, claiming that this friendship is an act of convenience and nothing else. Her view on the matter is dirty, clinical and cynical, failing to see that life in general is about greed and attachments to things you deem important to you.
 
She has a point, but she also misses it entirely. Twilight also misses the point of it entirely. I wonder how it will all progress in the future.