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Every girl likes to surround herself with fun people who bring lots of positivity into her life, right? I mean, who wants to go through life without the fun/support/advice of some friends? But, do you ever feel like you don’t have enough of those people?
Well, you’re not alone, CC-ers. Story of my life.
Growing up, I always had friends; guys, girls…a whole lotta them. We’d all play, hang out and have fun with each other. As I started to get older, in high school, then in college, my circle of friends got smaller and smaller. My tight knit posse went from 30 people to 20 to 10 to 4. It’s not that I had fights with my friends that caused us to become distant, but the phone calls, emails, nights out and shopping trips all seemed to dwindle as our lives progressed.
I even started college with a large circle of people. As the four years came and went, my group, again, got smaller and smaller and now, fresh out of college, I keep in contact with three people, out of the roughly 50 I used to party with at school. Why? Is it because of something I’m doing wrong?
The answer is no. While, yes, I’d like to have more close friends, I learned that quality over quantity is what deems relationships everlasting. My three best girlfriends, two from high school and one from kindergarten, are still the people I laugh with, cry with and trust with anything and everything. Some people are not meant to have lots of close friends and - I have learned - I am one of them. It was a difficult thing to learn, but, finally, I am okay with that. I’d rather have three great friends, then massive piles of casual friends.
I’m not saying you can’t have 100 best friends; for some people that’s possible. But if you aren’t one of those people who get along with everyone, that’s completely fine, too. At the end of the day, your true friends will always be there…whether there are two of them or two hundred.
How many close friends do you have CC? Do you wish you had more?
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I have only one friend and I keep pushing her away, I dont know why but IM a good friend to everyone but when it comes to share my things i just cant. Im too reserved
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I noticed I tend to move in groups of three. I had two close friends in kindergarten, and again in elementary and middle school, and even in high school. The people did change as I matured, but the two girls I met in high school are still my best friends.
In college now, I noticed I’m opening to a lot more “close friends.” Where before I only have two people who really knew what was up in my life, I have five or six now. I don’t mind it, I like it actually. I feel like I have better footing, and my save haven of friends I wouldn’t trade for the world.
I only have like 2 friends that i can share anything with. I tend to keep things to myself most of the time so it can be hard for people to get to know me.
I could totally relate to this article.
My birthday just came up and I use to have tons of birthday wishes and such, and this year pretty much just my close friends and a few others sent birthday wishes. At first I was a little upset, but like you said, quality is way better than quantity.
I know I’ll have these few friends for the rest of my life.
I have a gay best friend that I’ve known since fifth grade and a boyfriend that I am wayyyyy too comfortable with.
I used to have a group of 5 including myself in high school that I was really close to. I still try to keep in touch with 2 of them (the other 2 and I have had our disagreements sadly), but I don’t feel comfortable talking about certain things with them anymore. I thought these girls were going to be my friends for ever…BEST friends.
Then when I went to college, I got randomly placed in a room with my now best friend. Talk about luck…you always hear horror stories of roomates, but not me. At that point I realized I didn’t have much in common with my old friends compared to all the new people I met. So now I’m like 1482057 times closer to my 2 roomates than all of my friends from high school put together. So I definately agree with your quality over quantity idea.
I have three friends that I can tell just about anything to. One has been my best friend since we were 12, though we first met at 10, one since we were about 18 met through a serious party crowd, and the third I met through the second.
We don’t always agree on stuff, and we have a lot of differences (heck, we don’t have that much in common on the surface, but we’re all there for each other. Quality is definitely better then quantity.
I have two best friends, one lives in Sweden and the other in Atlanta. I have a few close friend locally that I hang out with. I think as American we get way too busy in life and lose touch with friends. Of course, Facebook helps.
i want to meet there women god send
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