How many friends do you have?

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December 23, 2016 at 11:18 pm #61638

wv
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Tesla fell in love with a pigeon, and odd musings about ‘intelligent people’

December 24, 2016 at 2:49 am #61648

zn
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http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/loners-are-more-intelligent-and-loyal-friends-says-study/

Loners get a bad rap for not having any friends. While loners do prefer solitude, they don’t necessarily dislike friendships. In fact, a new study has concluded that loners actually make the best friends. Since a loner doesn’t care about others’ opinion, they actually tend to be more loyal to their friends. Loners value the few friends that they have, and behave in a way that will keep them around.

December 24, 2016 at 11:02 am #61665

Zooey
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Damn. If I’d just kept my virginity, I could have been a genius.

December 24, 2016 at 12:16 pm #61666

PA Ram
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Well, Issac newton was a bit weird. Hey–I admire a guy who sticks a needle in his eye to find some scientific answer but it doesn’t play well at parties.

I have some Facebook friends who have 700 people on their “friends” list. This is not possible. You can’t know 700 people.

Since I’ve become older I have pretty much moved to just my immediate family. My wife and son and daughter and my son and daughter’s mates. When I get social time I try to get together with them. Sometimes there’s another relative or two we see but not too often. I don’t get together with anyone from work much anymore. Yesterday, after work I picked up a 6 pack and a guy from work was there and wanted to buy me a drink and I politely declined. I just don’t feel like it anymore. I’d rather get home–relax, enjoy my shows or books and drink at home if I want something like that.

It’s not that I can’t be sociable. I can. I just don’t feel like it.

So while I have friends. I don’t really. I don’t take time anymore to see them.

I just don’t care. I want to be comfortable with my own interests.

Real friendship(not Facebook friendship) takes time and work. I would say that I don’t have a lot of social types of interests. I’m not in a bowling league, for example. I have more solitary interests. I love to read. I have an on again off again relationship with physical fitness. I love studying card magic but I’m less interested in performing than in learning methods and working on technique.

I USED to be very sociable. I used to hang out with a lot of people. For whatever reason–I just don’t feel like it anymore. I don’t miss it.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

December 24, 2016 at 12:43 pm #61669

bnw
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Same here. Used to be more social when younger, high school and college but not now. I married one of my best friends from college and we’ve never lived near family nor friends from our college and earlier days. So I spend my time mainly with my family, more so with my son when his college schedule and social calendar will allow. Found over the years I have a lot of acquaintances but true friends I’d say are limited to those I had growing up and only a couple from college. Just reconnected with a friend from the old neighborhood while passing through Naples, FL. Had not seen him for 12 years and it was like yesterday to both of us. More than a few friends are dead due to alcohol or drugs too. I’m figuring on gardening and fishing if things go right in the future with time and brain cells left to spare for catching up with family and old friends with the inevitable bender that occurs.

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