actively work at making new friends

I do well alone. I don’t get bored easily and I have plenty of things to ponder inside my own head. But at some point its nice to have company. I don’t often make myself laugh out loud.

I like to be alone. I really do. But I’m tired of it. I’m getting bored of myself, I guess. I think about places or things I want to do, but then the thought of doing them alone again just turns me off to them.

I think it’s the kind of thing where I either need to work at making friends slowly and stay in one place for a longer time, or else I need to figure out how to be more outgoing and make friends more quickly. I’m not sure which option is actually more feasible..

i suck.

• Go out more. Not just to school.
• Smile at people
• Start conversations with people (I will need some help/work on this one)
• Start volunteering regularly somewhere
• Be comfortable and confident in myself – not be self conscious
• Realize this takes time and not get frustrated and impatient

What else? How do you go about making friends?

and I don’t do this. I think “oh, people will come talk to me.” And they do. I talk to a lot of people in my days. Okay, not a lot but some. Enough. But, I still don’t have any friends. No gaps have been filled branching these acquaintances into my life as friends, and I need friends.

I need to join an activity. School may not be the place to get friends. I doubt I’ll get a job in the current economy, but I can volunteer and I can go out and do (very cheap) things. And be open and outgoing and friendly.

I will not ever like living here is I don’t have any friends. So I need to at least work at this.

I moved up here at the end of September for school. It’s hard to make friends. Way harder than it should be. I do okay making class friends but its hard to bridge the gap to being real friends. One of the guys I had two of my classes with and we studied a few times outside of class. At the end of the term I texted him to see if he wanted to continue hanging out, but he told me he was busy. However, this term we have no classes together but he texted me the other day. I wish I could pursue that relationship because we got along pretty well and I just need some friends! If only I were better at having texting conversations – something it seems like you are expected to be good at when you’re my age.

Aside from these friends from class I should join more things and do more things to meet different people in a different setting. I should find a job, but I think I will also start volunteering some.