expand my circle of friends

It’s been said that a person can never have too many friends. As we age and life gets busier, our friendships change.

Once our friends were people we saw daily. Then, they were people we saw or spoke to once a week. Then, once a month. Now, we have faceless online friends with whom we may chat or email once a month. Does this make them any less a friend than those we used to see daily (when we were in high school)?

There are all kinds of friends. I am certainly closer to some of my friends than others, but I would feel pain/hurt/sadness if something awful happened to one of my faceless online friends or to a friend I haven’t seen in a year. Doesn’t that make them more than just a passing acquaintance?

I agree. You can never have too many friends. Besides, we all touch one another’s lives in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

So, here’s to a growing circle. May it expand forever.

I’ve made a few friends through my online classes, but they are all faceless. I need to expand my circle of friends in the local area. Most of my old friends have moved out of the area, and I’m spending so much time online due to my online courses that I don’t have much time to get involved in new activities. Thank goodness I still get together with my out-of-town friends once or twice a month. Otherwise, I’d probably go stir-crazy.

It’s such a shame that as we age we drift apart from people who mean so much to us in our memories. And, then it seems to get more and more difficult to make real friends. Certainly, we make lots of acquaintances and we have a plethora of colleagues, but how many are really friends? Most of the people I call friends are in the same profession as I which means we usually discuss our jobs. Yuck. I want to increase my circle so I can discuss politics, books, art, movies, and topics that I cannot even imagine right now. Plus, I just want to have a bunch of people on my “call for spontaneous dinner or movie plans” list. The problem is how and when.