Making friends is hard. Without a job or activities where do you look?!
- Our gay neighbor only looks at Josh when we talk to him.
- The lady downstairs asked if I wanted to buy a feral kitten that had just been birthed in her old Mercedes because she forgot to roll the window up. When I said no she asked if I wanted to buy her teenage son.
- There's a pack of preteens that hangs around the apartment complex I could try and befriend, but I think I blew my chance when they showed me a pill bottle and used condom on the sidewalk and I said, "Well, don't touch it!" <- Fucking lame old lady!
- A guy asked me if I wanted to be his friend at the gym the other day. By guy I mean 8 year-old kid. But it still felt good - in a totally appropriate way.
- There are some B's who tan by the apartment pool everyday but one of them has a grammatically incorrect tattoo (I'm not fucking joking. It says: Never Make Someone A Priority If They Only Make You A Option). Sigh
- I could try church but I don't want to burn any buildings down with my presence
- Josh and I tried to play pick-up on base yesterday. There were a lot of people, but luckily we got on the first game. We lost, however, and in the process I got a gnarly scratch by the 70-year-old Asian man I was guarding. Josh then got picked up to run the next couple games and I sat on the bleachers, watching longingly, and listening to all the guys say shit like, "Damn! Look at Steve Kerr out there ballin' fools up!" I left friendless.
- I tried to google 'How to make friends' (Yes, I actually did this. No, I don't feel like a loser, but thanks for thinking that, dickhole!). Once I farmed through all the shit written for CHILDREN, the only things I could find were "Cousins can be a good resource!" <- What the fuck?! That sounds inappropriate. Plus, most of my cousins live in Colorado, where I just moved from, but thanks for the worthless advice. Or, "Take any and all invitations." <- Besides having a new feral kitten, this shitty advice gets me nothing. It also assumes people have invited me to do shit. When they haven't it just leaves me feeling like even more of a loser than I did when I googled 'How to make friends'.
In conclusion, I think I'm just gonna wear a low-cut shirt and hang out around the local community college hoping someone needs an adult to buy them booze.
Moving is hard.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you've actually met a lot of people, albiet wierd people, but you're bound to find someone quasi normal pretty soon. Plus you're pretty awesome, you'll be taking numbers soon for everyone lined up at your door!
You are totally awesome. Others will recognize that eventually.
ReplyDeleteYou could try meetup.com - I wanted to meet more atheists, so I joined the Boulder Atheists from meetup.
I have no other advice, because I haven't moved away from Colorado and just frankly haven't had to face that dilemma. I think I would have more problems than you, because I'm kinda shy.
So... you didn't want the feral kitten? Why not!?
Making friends is really hard. My advice is: Avoid at all costs those people who approach you first (you've had a couple experiences with this already). It is better to be friendless than to spend the next several months avoiding phone calls and keeping the shades pulled down because, in your lonely ignorance, you embraced those semmingly nice people who were actually friendly to you. They do this because they do not have actual friends and can spy a potential stalking victim -- I mean friend -- a mile a way. Maybe join a painting class, or a running club, and don't really expect to make friends, but you can kind of keep your friend vibe going just in case. For the most part these activities will satisfy your need for social interaction without you having to show anyone where you live until you are ready. You will likely meet wives of Josh's base buddies (but really, most of them will suck too).
ReplyDeleteJust about the time you are going to leave Cali, you will make a bunch of friends that you will hate to leave. It is really wierd how that happens.
The only other suggestion I have is to have a baby, because new mothers are desparate for adult interaction.
Or come back to your peeps in Colorado.
xoxo
Jacque