Your friend is a loner. You try to convince him to make friends. How will you tell him that one shall belong to a group just like in a set?
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Step-by-step explanation:
There are people who think that someone with no friends must have something wrong with them. Insecure. Awkward. Sad. Depressed. No social skills. Rude. Bossy. Bad friend. That's a very ignorant belief.
I respect those with no friends because it can mean they chose to not accept bad friends or fair weather friends, and decided no friends is better than bad friends.
I currently don't have close friends. None. I have aquaintances. People you talk to once in a while, but not someone you can call if you lose someone or are heartbroken, or even if you run out of gas or are in the hospital.
Why? Life. Standards.
Standards?
Many people don't know how to be a friend. They don't make time for you or listen to your problems without a time limit you can't cross. These people will call you only to hang out and have fun, when they need someone to go somewhere with them, when they're bored, when they need something, or when they want support. I learned that as a teen. There are many people who will only call when when it suits them. That's not a friend.
Life.
As an adult, many people you meet will already have a best friend or several close friends. People get jobs and they have less time. School. Work. Already established friends. Boyfriend.
Some get a boyfriend who demands all of their free time and they vanish.
Some have babies and will seek out only other moms to spend time with.
My best friend as an adult moved. My best friend in high school moved. My best friend when I was 5 moved. Another close friend got a new close friend who was gossipy, selfish, and passive aggressive. Then along came a guy and they vanished.
It's also a myth that all 7 year old girls meet another little girl on the playground and they are friends forever. My private school k-8, had an odd unspoken system where everyone had a new best friend every year. Sure, one or two were a little off and had no friends, but the rest of us rotated friends. By the time I was 13, I was tired of it.
It's also a myth that all girls meet another girl in high school and they bond over growing up and boys. Many girls in high school are jealous and petty. You can be the best friend ever and still have someone secretly resent you. I was the new girl a lot as I transferred a few times, and I made new casual friends easily, but i also gained enemies over silly things easily. Thr boys were interested, but not in being friends.
In my experience, many people expect the world from you, but they aren't there for you in return. My so called best friend when I was 16 was a great example of that selfishness. She wanted someone to listen to all of her problems and have fun with, but anyone else with problems brought her down. I encountered it time and time again. And as an adult, people are still that way. It's just that many others don't have time for listening or friendship now. Life gets in the way. So, I cut out the aquaintances and bad friends because I'd rather have no friends than those who are only friends on boring sunny days or during personal thunderstorms.