Making Friends As An Adult
Sometimes meeting new people and making new friends as an adult can be difficult. If we move to a new place for work or some other venture, it's especially hard because we might not know anybody in the surrounding area. Quite often it is going to require a bit of effort in order to find new people with common interests who are open to forming a new friendship with others.
When I was in school it was a lot easier, because I would be a part of different clubs or sports and could easily meet people that way. Sometimes I would meet them in class as well, working on various class assignments or projects. It felt a lot easier to make friends as a child than it does now.
Work is also another place to meet new friends and I have been fortunate enough to meet some great ones there as well that have turned into long-lasting connections. But how else can we go about meeting friends as adults?
There are a variety of different ways that you can do it, and here I'm going to share some of my personal favorites.
Aside from these ideas, there are also a number of emerging apps that are seeking to meet this need for people as well. Many introduce people in the same way that the Tinder app would and other similar services. Hey! VINA, Yonder, Skout, and Meetup, are just some of the popular apps that are being used by people to help make new connections with people in their own community and around the world. And steemit, as with the other platforms, has the same opportunity to foster the opportunity where you can meet some really inspiring and creative individuals.
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I like it my friend. I look for you name everyday, because you're in my short list of steemit friends. Im glad to know you.
Especially, for our type of people have hard time meeting the soul mate or close friends.
Nice post! :)
It does get tougher as we get older.
I think meeting new people and making friends is an activity that you always have to work on as an adult. I think this is because we learn over the years to protect ourselves by increasing how private we are. Children, generally don't seem to have these barriers. They don't waste any time getting down to the business of playing...maybe we just need to play more.
Indeed an awesome article..
I thought I was the only one facing such kind of problems, making friends in workplace and stuff.. I my first year of working, I could barely make 2 good friends who had their interests aligned to mine.. But I think, as we grow up, the foundation of our interest gets stronger, which means, we enter in specialization mode. And finding someone who has similar special interest as you, or simply don't count you as an insane psychopath just because you like virtual world better than real one, say Anime, well, it's a difficult task where Adults are used to give up on and continue enjoying the solitude with their interests as companion. Although I can be dead wrong about it..
But thank for this article.. I was already on medium and meetup since last few months, meeting up new people, seeing how culture difference can be a major factor how one thinks.
@doitvoluntarily - this is so true. I've thought about relocating again, but after moving somewhere 10 years ago where I knew no one. The thought of leaving the network/friends I've made here to start over again sounds exhausting...lol.
It is a different generation. We use technology for the convenience for everything. Even to meet people. We don't meet people through friends or on our own out at social gatherings like we used to. We still do but it is different.
Great article - I've volunteered for many, many projects, and it's an awesome way of learning new skills and making new friends :) - not in the game now! Bit tired, wanted to do things for myself :)