The Need For New Friends

When I found myself a few years ago so wrapped up in my online friendships with people I had never met, I realized something was wrong if I couldn't make one single off-line friend in my area. I had friends but they were people I knew years and years; I didn't have any new friends. I spent a lot of time blaming other people, outside forces, whatever, on my inability to make new friends.

Why are new friends so important? The ability to forge new ties not only broadens your social world, it broadens your mental world because you are exposed to different ideas. It is easy to get stuck in a rut with old friendships; with relating to people you have known for a long time. When you make new friends this helps you to expand and improve on your old friendships because you will be triggered to share things you encounter from new friends, including ideas, food, music, and more.

In the end I realized I just wasn't putting forth the effort to make friends. When I did it opened up a whole new world for me. Now at times I still feel a little isolated, but I have friends who live close to me now and I know I have the confidence to make friends. That's something I didn't have before. There are a lot of interesting and cool folks out there who never or rarely go online that I have met and befriended.

Friends are important to have! How do you make new friends?

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