Friendship Quote by Richard Gough

There is an almost accidental intimacy in the logistics here: a life reduced to training blocks, recovery, and the small social ritual of a shared dinner. The line reads like a diary entry, but the real subject is not discipline so much as displacement. “The two with no family here” is the hinge phrase, quietly turning a routine schedule into an admission of exile. Whatever “here” is - camp, posting, tour, or temporary work - it’s a place where belonging has to be improvised.

The intent feels practical, even offhand, which is why it lands. By listing the day in plain increments (train, rest, sleep, meal), Gough frames companionship as maintenance, something you do the way you hydrate or stretch. That matter-of-factness is the subtext: loneliness doesn’t arrive as melodrama; it shows up as a calendar problem. Abel becomes less a friend by sentiment than a structural solution to being unmoored. Two people without a domestic anchor start orbiting each other because the alternative is to drift.

Contextually, it also sketches a culture where work is physical and communal, but private life is absent or postponed. The mornings belong to the institution (training), the afternoons to survival (rest), the evenings to a substitute family formed out of proximity and need. It’s a reminder that “hanging around together” is often how solidarity begins: not through grand ideals, but through the simple decision not to eat alone.