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What are your friendships like these days?
Do you have a "best friend?" What is he or she like?
Do you spend much time with your friends? Are you trying to make more?
I have plenty of friends, some closer than other but it's rare that I go more than a few days without seeing or talking to at least one of them. As much as my bank account protests I'll usually wind up going to the bar at least a night or two a week due to getting bored with not talking to anyone.
If I have a problem with said friendships it's that seemingly half my friend group (early/mid 30s millennials) moved out of the city I live in over the last 18 months. I did pick up a new friend though, at a reddit meetup of all places. The date that ensued from that meetup was a failure, but the friend is entertaining (a touch crazy but actually smart and entertaining to talk to) and we'll be meeting up for drinks some time in the next week.
I had a best friend and have had a few others who are close. He was a total fuckup and disabled in his later years but a great conversationalist and drinking buddy and had a huge friend group, a real larger than life personality. We'd talk or exchange texts daily. He took his own life a few months ago. I'm glad he isn't suffering anymore or burdening his friends but I miss him. There's always something that I would've called him to talk about and well, I can't anymore.
Yeah, everyone moving all the time is extremely annoying. I think it's a really horrid part of our culture.
Yeah, I understand why my friends left (The college town I live in has heavily gentrified over the last decade and become irritatingly expensive to live in relative to its fairly crappy job market. Hell, I was close to leaving myself before I landed my current gig.), but it doesn't make it suck any less that much of my social circle just vanished in the last five years.
Relatedly, my father has moved states every five years for work on average and has moved further and further away each time such that he now resides in some rural hellhole in northern Nevada a 30 hour drive away. I'm lucky to see him once a year (and to his credit he does help out with the plane tickets). My little sister moved to the other side of the country, the northeast, and I'm also lucky to see her once a year.
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