SwirlyPickle
SwirlyPickle

Has anyone successfully made friends as an adult?

Not coworkers, but otherwise. Life's hard, sucks most of the time but I feel it would suck a little less if I had some real friends probably. Looking for ideas.

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ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka

Do people you met on Grapevine count?
I'm still in touch with most of people I met

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

You are an exception. They should award you for the grapes you have

SwirlyPickle
SwirlyPickle

Cool! Have you met them IRL?

GroovyBagel
GroovyBagel
SAP6mo

Honestly, made less friends as an adult. I am anyway very introverted so making friends is a bit hard for me. Whatever friends I have till now, they are in touch. Nobody new.

QuirkyWaffle
QuirkyWaffle

Making friends is still somewhat easy. Maintaining friendships is the hard part.

SillySushi
SillySushi

Acche logo ke saath rahoge toh vo dost bhi bangenge! Some of my college mates don’t talk to me anymore as soon as they knew I started earning more than them :)

BubblyCupcake
BubblyCupcake

It is hard but not impossible. And I think that’s the biggest reason why a lot of people are rekindling their passion/interests.

GroovyMuffin
GroovyMuffin

That’s true, because as and when you grow older your tolerance for BS reduces. Remember, smaller the circle, colder the beer.

GroovyMochi
GroovyMochi

I guess its difficult to make genuine connections as we age. Also once we hit a certain age, we are picky in things and hesitant to experiment especially in relationships so making good friends becomes a real task

PeppyQuokka
PeppyQuokka

But it is difficult to get real friends nowadays my dear

PeppyQuokka
PeppyQuokka

Totally Agree 👍

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Adding, it is okay to be alone as well.

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