expand my circle of friends

I’ve started noticing lately, now that I’m in my first year of uni, that friends are not people you hang out with at lunchtime. They’re the people who make an effort to keep in touch. Who, even if you don’t talk to them for three months, you can go back to and you just pick up where you left off.
With (and based on) this, has come the realisation that I actually don’t have many friends. And it strikes me as odd that all but one of my true friends live in either different cities or on the other side of the world entirely.
How I’m going to do this, I’m not sure.

So I’ve added a bunch of new people and readded a few old people to my life from various different places. Met a number of awesome people while working at the hospital and we all kind of threw together a weekly meet event. We go to a coffee shop, eat, drink, play games, and talk. I’m still hoping to expand the circle further but it’s been a wonderful thing.

..while taking a Reiki class during the Summer. I hope to get together with her soon, we have exchanged a couple emails =)

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.

expanding by turning distant acquaintances into real friends – getting to know each other better etc… works “OK”.
Next thing is to meet new ppl. Opportunity comes next Saturday, when I’m going out to dance:)

When you have more friends than time you can spend with them, all your friendships can deteriorate to an extent where you are everyone’s acquaintance, but nobody’s true friend. I ended up going back to having a normal circle of friends again.. I am now much happier because I can build on the friendships that really matter.

I would only reccommend this goal if you are truly lonely, not if you just want to be a popular social butterfly – be careful what you wish for!

I have some very close friends, and am very grateful for them. I have been feeling as if I should interact with a wider variety of people. The ones I talk with most have a lot of things in common with me, like they have children and are married. I want to learn about the viewpoints and thoughts of people that I do not have much in common with so that I can learn more from them, gain new perspectives.

It never hurts to have a wide circle of friends.

Obviously facebook its an easy way to get in touch with old friends from high school and keep in touch with the people i have just left behind i like to think of it as the online texting. Secondly i’m behaving with the email although i still feel its no substitute for a written letter i accept now after 15 years that my love for my friends is greater than my relucance to email
So i now email regularly, write on walls, i still write real letters and send cards and i call those who are truly close and text message sometimes too i guess overall i am expanding my circle and look to maintain it too.

I have returned to my home city after studying abroad and miss my wonderful friends i have made there. Although i plan to keep in touch i realise that their function as my friends to do things with is naturally hindered.
Being back home is wonderful meeting old friends is like rediscovering familiar things that you had forgotten about. But they too have their own lives. SO i seek to expand my circle of friends to try and relearn my old friends, be better at keeping in touch with my friends who i have moved away from, initiate more interactions because i am a social person and like people to do things with.