How do you make friends at the age of 33?

TC or Gtfo.

Friends are overrated, you dont need to. If you organically bond, good enough otherwise its fine. If you are married your partner makes uo for it for the most parts. That being said to organically bond, you need to increase the surface area meaning you need to stumble into new people to make new friends. For people like me its just colleagues and old school/college friends. Anyhow at 33 you dont really make friends just acquaintance so its better to rebond with your old buddies which I am sure you must have lost touch with rather than finding new ones.

I suggest travel - especially in group trips - this is the way I have made most of my friends!

By trauma-bonding.

Moye moye pe reel banade

Gym

Meet people. See who you'd like to meet again and if there's reciprocation, invest in them. Invest your time and energy. Get to actually know them by spending time 1:1. Before that, do the inner work on what kind of a friend are you and what do you bring to the table (not talking about tangible benefits). Keep checking in with your new friends regularly. It's a life long process. Every human relationships go through ups and downs. Longevity of these relationships depend on how we manage them well.

Trek with indiahikes or trek the himalays if you’re into fitness, you will be with people for 5 days in wilderness. You will vibe with someone Go to outdoor activities like swimming or gym or dance class or indoor mountain climbing or anything you like. You will find people there whom you can be friends with. Dating can help, but i know for heteros getting a match is difficult Make friends over some game if you’re intovert , but be careful

Bhai sorry to break it to you but as zakir bhai has said jo dost school ,college mai ban gye bas ban gye.....

33 is not old - look around in your family, even very senior elders find and make friends so you will too. Because you're in a low mental state you will always evaluate things to be worse than they are. Talk to a therapist, seek a good professional - they will help. Turning from introvert to less introverted will take practice and it does change with time. Find activities, hobbies, hobby classes (guitar, dancing, singing, skating, gym, painting, flying, cricket, badminton, whatever you think you'll like), meetups, attend standups, open mics, and force yourself to participate and find opportunities to meet people. Give it time and things always get better with effort.

Do group activities you like. Badminton, pottery, dance classes, treks, Toastmasters, CultFit group classes, etc. - whatever suits your fancy. All you need to do there is be open to interacting with people and if needed, suggest plans for right after (like, lunch/dinner nearby right after the activity). Some will say no and that's alright. Stay consistent enough in showing up and you can slowly build familiarity with each other and the organizers (depends on frequency of events). Then you or others you met can plan other activities of shared interest too. That's for friends. For close friends, it needs to be a lot of shared interests and high trust. So, consider it a level higher in difficulty level and tackle it that way

Join Toastmasters or AIESEC. You will get to meet non-geeky crowd if that's what you are looking for

Ab to omegle bhi band hogya

Anyone aware of any community in which people do car and bike road trips in groups in banglore.

Search for @onhisowntrip on Instagram or check out onhisowntrip.com I know people in your age group who became the closest of friends after bonding over these organised trips. All of my friends who've tried this have gone on multiple trips with this person. Fuck everything, go for it as well.

Shaadi karo dost... dost kyun banana hai iss age me. Shaadi karo bacche karo running karo netflix dekho :) Kaam ki kami thore na hai zindigi me

I'd say join a reading community like Cubbon Reads on Instagram, you will make good friends at places like these! Good luck buddy!

I have 2 friends from highschool with whom I hangout, I am 40+ now. I think that is a good number of friends to have and don't intend to have more because at my age making friends is mostly for a quid pro quo in most cases. Not saying don't have a good time with others, but dragging it to friendship is a bit of a stretch

Don't listen to other people saying that it cannot be done. It's not true. See, it's not about introvert or extrovert. You don't need lot of friends, you need something meaningful as a relationship Try to have a relationship with yourself. Find out what are the things you like. Find out activities you can do based on things you like. Sitting at home isn't mostly the best way to make friends, simply because no one knows you exist. It's going into the society that people notice who you are. You don't have to change anything about yourself, Just figure out what you like, find out places where activities take place of things you like, do activities with people there and find people there you feel you can connect to You have to take efforts into this if you want relationships in life. Nothing will come to you until that. And see, introverts don't mean you don't talk to people, it simply means that social situations are emotionally draining. Doesn't mean you cannot do it and it certainly doesn't mean you cannot put efforts to find something meaningful

It’s hard to make new friends during age 30’s as most people get busy in married life, career and kids. Only when life hits mid-40’s and people realize that their kids have grown up, career growth has plateaued or at least they have adjusted to certain life expectations, people start catching up with old friends or even make new friends. Sorry but 33 is very much wrong age to make friends, rather try to make contact with old school or college group, hopefully you will find some lost one there