harkensaw wrote:

It's pretty much the same in my boat, 'cept I've not had friends since college. they all seemed to drift away and I find it increasingly hard to become interested in the 'popular' culture. Its extremely rare to find RL peeps with the same or similar interest as myself. But I've become so used to being on my own now I've pretty much given up the ghost. If the chance to make a friend turns up I never turn it down. And as stated above politeness is always a priority.

MrOhNo wrote:

The amount of friends you have varies over your life. In the town that I grew up in there were hundreds of kids that all grew up together, and knew each other. I talk to maybe three people from my town still. As a young adult I have maybe five goods friends. As hard as it is for most people to realize, at some point most of your old friends will start holding you back. And most of them won't like when you choose progress and success over maintaining those relationships. Those friends are usually not worth keeping if they can't be motivated to make progress in theri own lives by seeing others be successful around them.

The only advice I have for meeting new people would be to be polite. People aren't going to initiate conversations with people that act aggressively.

I don't think it gets harder to make friends when you are older. It's that you as an individual need more substance from the interpersonal relationships you develop than others. That's why you have a small group of close friends instead of a large group of acquaintances.

Your friends start "dying off" long before you hit old age. I recently started repairing a friendship with someone I haven't talked with in years. The reason we got together to talk about things was because we had lost an important person in our lives the week before. My point is that you can never know what situations will bring people in and out of your life. It's up to you to make the decision to initiate some form of contact with another person. When you make the decision to do so you'll find that most people will eagerly respond to you.

On a lighter note, I'll be your friend if you really need one.

haruharaharuko6 wrote:

I'm 25 years old and I was actually having a hard time meeting people as well. I work a full-time job and I was going to university online up until a couple weeks ago. I also don't have a car, so I don't get to go out much. However, a recently joined my friend's anime club and now have a whole new group of friends that i get along really well with and we all have a lot in common. It's great! Now if I could just find a girlfriend, I'd be all set. ^_~

AmayaTsuki wrote:



I wish I new of an anime club around here. That would awesome and a great place to meet people with similar interests :)

haruharaharuko6 wrote:

You could ways start your own anime club with the help of face book. My friend Mikey was really getting into anime and he noticed that there weren't any groups for people like that in our city, so a formed one himself and it just kept growing and growing! Now were like 30+ members and we're working on a website and everything. We are even doing panels at the local conventions.