In elementary school, making friends seemed to come easy. You became friends over shared likenesses and how you liked to spend recess. “You like kickball too. Wanna be friends?” In high school, it was over shared experiences, like suffering through the same class or sweating together, running cross country.
As an adult, I find that friends are tougher to make. They take more time. There’s more thought about what makes a good friend. There’s more caution, but they’re just as important and meaningful. Here’s a few thoughts on friendliness and friendship:
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Love these quotes and it is true. Kids have a great gift of making friends. Harder for us as we filter it through criteria developed through life experiences.
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Kids are the best. Yes, it can be hard too but I think that has more to do with adult influences. 😀😀😀
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Friends are the family you choose is my favourite and you are so right about friends being harder to make as an adult.
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I’m so jealous of my wife because she can easily make friends. I’m horrible at it! Oh the joy of being an adult!!!!
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Indeed. With me it is more getting into a setting with the right kind of people as I am quite an individual personality…
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I love the Charles Darwin quote. So much truth that our friendships both make this life worthwhile and also say so much about who we are. And the new look of your quotes is snappy, Brian!
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I’m always playing with the look of the images. In another life, I would be a designer and know what I’m doing. Ha ha ha!
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Well, it looks to me like you know what you are doing in this life! 🙂 ❤
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Making friends in itself isn’t too difficult for me. The problem is getting out and finding people to befriend. I lead a very quiet life and have trouble both physically and mentally going out to social functions or places like the library where I might meet someone new. I can count on one hand the true friends I’ve had over the years. I love the quote about the friends you can call on at 4 am… that’s a true friend.
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The friends you can call at 4 am are amazing. So powerful! Love people like that!!!!
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Oh…friends are the family you choose! This girl…moi…who believes in ‘chosen family’ loves all of that. Yes, yes, yes! 🥰
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That’s a favorite of mine too!!!😎😎😎😎
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Not surprised! 😉😎😉
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The older I get, the more I realize how important friends are. We can’t have too many friends.
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So important!!! They really do make a huge difference.
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This is so true, Brian! I’m much more mindful about whom I call friend nowadays.
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Me too Kegarland. I’ve been working on another blog on the same idea, people who you think have similar values and experiences but instead being surprised by them. I’ve come to the conclusion that friend means different things to folks! Thank you.
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