How to make actual friends

[Rugby02]

Here's what I've been implementing into my life: Monthly lunches scheduled to share a laugh with another.

I knew this tech at a place who was transferring to another place with career progress. She commented that she'd miss me because I was always so nice to everyone when I came in to the workplace. Since she was staying in the area, I suggested we get together for lunch because I wanted to hear about how she was transitioning. It seemed tenuous lip service but we actually did meet up for lunch. Nowadays we schedule time every month to share a laugh. Slowly we're sharing and getting each other's opinions,...it's a friendship in the making.

I'm now doing this with five people.

 

[Changing4Best]

I live in an apartment building for the elderly and disabled. All of us here are more or less in the same kind of situation, so it is easier to make friends with my neighbors, because we have thing(s) in common. So, for instance, tonight, I am having 2 of them over for supper. Then one (or maybe both) will be going to church with me to a meeting that 2 of us have been going to for 2-3 weeks now. So I guess I could say we have a growing friendship. We had supper together last Wednesday night also, at one of their apartments.