Make new friends

Making new friends for me involved getting in touch with some old ones. Don’t feel weird about calling up someone you haven’t talked to in years. Most likely, they will be happy you did because they can say that they have a “new” friendship too. If they don’t want to see you, you haven’t lost anything, because you hadn’t talked in years anyway.

I’m back home now after graduating from school. I have lost touch with a lot of the people that I knew here, mostly because they never call me back. I got in touch with three girls that I haven’t seen in a while. It’s been really nice and comfortable hanging out with them. I plan on doing it again. :-)

I’m having lunch with Julia on Tuesday. :-)

Abby was my Freshman year roommate. We got along, but lived with different people Sophomore year. We have occasionally done stuff together. I really like hanging out with her though and this semester I’m going to do more with her.

Julia is a very cool girl who has some interests in things that I do, but it seems no one else shares. I’d like to do more things with her, but I don’t have her phone number nor AIM name, and it might be hard to hang out with her without any of our mutual friends, since she knows them better than me.

I need to find people that will call me back when I leave them a message or email me back when I email them. This frustrates me to no end! It takes 5 minutes max to call someone back about a question they have. Especially when we are all on break from school. Argh!

And emailing is even easier and they can’t even do that!

I’m trying to do new things to meet some new people, but I feel like whenever I do some of the old people follow me. I am making new friends though. I just start up conversations with other people.

I’ve been feeling pretty good about this lately. I’ve definitely been busy!

I’m living with a girl I met recently. I like her and would call her my friend. I would like to become better friends with her.

What is the best way to open up and talk about meaningful things without it being awkward or obvious?

Heh, you can tell it’s been a while since I’ve made a close friend.

None of my friends from home (Florida) have visited me at college in my 3+ years here (St. Louis). I attributed it to the fact that they’d have to fly here. And that all of us are quite busy. I really do understand. I haven’t been able to visit them either because I’m never home to drive over to them while they are still there. But this semester, one of my friends is working in Minnesota. And three, maybe four, people are flying up to visit him for a weekend.

To be honest, I’m jealous.

Why hasn’t anyone visited me? Am I not as good of a friend as I think I am? Why do I just not have any good friends anymore?

The ones I have I’ve known for approximately 3 years and I still don’t feel close to them. I know most of that is my fault, but I just don’t want to feel close to them.

I have a boyfriend and he is my best friend, but there are times when I just need some girls to chat to. I miss my high school friends because I had some wonderful girls back then. Since then, we’ve moved apart, I went to a different school than most of them, and things just happen.

I’m not very good at making new friends.