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Nobody Said It Would Be This Hard To Make Adult Friends
Why is making new friends so hard?
Nobody said it would be this hard.
It always just kind of happened.
School-age friendship. A forced organic creation. Where ingredients are tossed into one bowl and nobody knows what will come from it.
I didn’t know any other way. Any other method. I assumed it’s how it would always be. I’d move through life and friends would come, friends would go, but there would be a limitless supply.
Wrong.
After school, nobody told me it would be this hard to make new friends.
The Shift In Friendship
It’s funny how friendships begin early on.
At a young age it was, “wow, blue’s your favorite color? I like blue too! Let’s be best friends.”
Pretty simple.
We hadn’t found ourselves. Hadn’t grown into our brains. But it made making friends so much more refreshing. There weren’t a series of boxes a potential applicant had to check off.
The first box I think to come was the cootie box.
All girls had cooties. It was scientifically proven.
