Maybe I’m Not Too Old to Make New Friends
No new post today, so I wanted to re-share something I first published in early June. Looking forward to you hearing from you in the comments!
I’m not a very good friend.
I care deeply about the people in my life and want to stay close with them. But maintaining friendships takes work, and I’ve been lazy. The friendships I do have are largely thanks to the other person making the effort.
As part of My Instruction Manual, I’ve been thinking about the people who are important to me, and I’m slowly starting to put in the required work.
But what about making new friends?
I read in Gretchen Rubin‘s The Happiness Project (my review here) that one of her happiness resolutions was to make three new friends in a month.
THREE new friends? In a MONTH?
Nothing she tried in her year of happiness experiments seemed more daunting to me than the idea of making new friends. If I couldn’t be bothered to maintain existing friendships, how could I even consider…
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