meet new people and make new friends

So after finding a ton of old friends/acquaintances on facebook and adding them as contacts, I’ve taken the next step and organized some coffee dates. Next week I have so far confirmed 5 people, in the process of confirming 4 more and there’s still about a dozen who haven’t gotten back to me yet. This is a big step for me, I think, and am quite excited to get to know more people and make friends with similar intrests so that I can be myself and not be fake so that people will like me. There are lots of people in the world, I don’t need to conform to a select few just to have friends :D

So far so good. I joined a website called ‘facebook’ and joined a bunch of discussion groups that interested me. I got into a philosophy and physics one and found some really cool people with really good ideas!! We started emailing each other and became friends. I am quite happy with this. Also through facebook I found lots of people I used to know live in Ottawa as well and when I get back to Ottawa at the end of the month I’m going to arrange a series of coffees and teas with them to catch up and see if there are still any common interests there to build up a friendship on. Most people change during highschool and choose different paths, so it’ll be interesting to see if any of them have chosen the same ones as I have :D