How to make a ‘new’ friend?
Hey I’m back, currently one “healthy cookie” down in my PG, using a bedsheet as a blanket and thinking and pondering about life. I met my childhood friends for my birthday. People I’ve known since I was five. People who have seen me through so many different stages of life, and who I’ve seen grow through theirs. But when we met this time, it genuinely felt like we are all living such different trajectories that maybe there aren’t as many things we can deeply relate to anymore. One friend is super settled in her career and is in the biodata phase. One friend just graduated with her master’s, has started her career and is in her post-breakup exploratory phase. And I am simply in my still-figuring-things-out-and-navigating-long-distance phase. So it got me thinking… What is it that truly bridges humans to each other? Why was it so much easier to make friends when we were younger? And why is it that we cling so tightly to the friends we made when we were younger? Is it because ...
