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How many 15 year olds you know have a 'best friend' (or like a solid friendgroup)?
And how many 35 year olds?
As you go further in life, you will inevitable lose friends. Some of which you have known for years. And it's not possible to replace them.
If you are 25, then a friend you have made in HS is much more valuable than for example someone you befriended at work - simply because your friendship is longer, you shared an important life phase together... You probably know him for over 10 years by this moment - that's an amount of time you can't just spent into a friendship with your colleague, it's just not feasible to have such a long lasting relationship in adulthood.
It is as if when you are a kid, you get a bunch of years for free that you can invest into relationships like points into skills in some videogame - but after you spend the initial ones, it's much more difficult to gain more of them.
Adult life is just busier, working a job, changing jobs, moving cities... There are much more obstacles that a friendship has to overcome to be long lasting...
That's even if you can befriend people in the first place - as people grow older, you share less and less life experience together.
A kid in middleschool or HS has had a very similar life to his peers - they care about the same things, they worry about the same things, and even their dreams are more or less the same. That makes it much easier for them to befriend each other.
But as an adult, your personality is much more unique, with certain people you will simply won't be able to find common ground no matter what, and even if you can, the amount of similarities is just so much smaller - which means that the connections you make will never feel as "strong" as those you had when you were younger.
Once you're outside HS, you can never make a friend that shares the same HS experience as you, therefore the friendships you have with your classmates are special. Same goes with every stage in your life.
Combine all these factors together, and it makes having a true friend when your well into your adult life very rare and special. Even if you look at boomers that do have friends, you'll see that most of them met a long time ago.
And the people that can maintain very long and strong friendships, are often very 'underdeveloped' so to say.
People who have never left their hometown, still being good friends with a bunch of their HS classmates or sport teammates reminiscing about how they scored a touchdown in 75', or people working the same job for literal decades... You want to be that?
The choice between stagnation, or losing your friends is not the best one...
@AsGoodAsItGets @Edgar @TsarTsar444 @Syobevoli
And how many 35 year olds?
As you go further in life, you will inevitable lose friends. Some of which you have known for years. And it's not possible to replace them.
If you are 25, then a friend you have made in HS is much more valuable than for example someone you befriended at work - simply because your friendship is longer, you shared an important life phase together... You probably know him for over 10 years by this moment - that's an amount of time you can't just spent into a friendship with your colleague, it's just not feasible to have such a long lasting relationship in adulthood.
It is as if when you are a kid, you get a bunch of years for free that you can invest into relationships like points into skills in some videogame - but after you spend the initial ones, it's much more difficult to gain more of them.
Adult life is just busier, working a job, changing jobs, moving cities... There are much more obstacles that a friendship has to overcome to be long lasting...
That's even if you can befriend people in the first place - as people grow older, you share less and less life experience together.
A kid in middleschool or HS has had a very similar life to his peers - they care about the same things, they worry about the same things, and even their dreams are more or less the same. That makes it much easier for them to befriend each other.
But as an adult, your personality is much more unique, with certain people you will simply won't be able to find common ground no matter what, and even if you can, the amount of similarities is just so much smaller - which means that the connections you make will never feel as "strong" as those you had when you were younger.
Once you're outside HS, you can never make a friend that shares the same HS experience as you, therefore the friendships you have with your classmates are special. Same goes with every stage in your life.
Combine all these factors together, and it makes having a true friend when your well into your adult life very rare and special. Even if you look at boomers that do have friends, you'll see that most of them met a long time ago.
And the people that can maintain very long and strong friendships, are often very 'underdeveloped' so to say.
People who have never left their hometown, still being good friends with a bunch of their HS classmates or sport teammates reminiscing about how they scored a touchdown in 75', or people working the same job for literal decades... You want to be that?
The choice between stagnation, or losing your friends is not the best one...
@AsGoodAsItGets @Edgar @TsarTsar444 @Syobevoli