"There is nothing on this Earth more to be prized than true friendship." This is a quote from St. Thomas Aquinas that I recently found that got me thinking about my friendships with people. Or in some cases, my lack of friends. This is due to my social life not being very strong at certain points of my life. This (along with a suggestion by a friend that noticed that I make a lot of jokes about my social life) inspired this article about how my social life was when I was a kid up to now, at the end of my first year in college.
When I was younger...
I had a lot of friends. I guess it's easier to make friends when you're all five years old and have recess together every day. Most people can be friends pretty easily up until middle school when cliques start to form.
Things soon changed...
I was born in 1997, so when the Internet was getting bigger as I went through elementary school. I even remember one of my elementary school friends showing me how to use MySpace (which I still never joined). My love for the Internet started just before the beginning of middle school, though. That might have been the reason that I only had a few close friends at that time. I did make a few more friends as I went through high school.
But during high school...
One of my friends introduced me to Tumblr. At first, I just used it to see cool fan art of my favorite TV shows. Then I got more obsessed with shows, followed more blogs, followed a whole lot more blogs with different content, and ended up reblogging 200+ things a day, depending on how much free time I had (which during my high school years was a lot). I did end up making a few friends on Tumblr though. I've never met them in real life (and I don't give away personal information, so don't worry), so I don't know if I could call them "close friends", but still.
I also don't have a romantic life...
I honestly don't even want to think about being in a relationship right now because it's just one more thing that I would have to worry about. But if I do find someone within the next few years, given my lack of experience, my lack of a social life and the weird sense of humor that I get from Tumblr, my flirting would probably end up being like the below .gif from "Anchorman 2."
Between high school and college...
I lost contact with a lot of friends. I still saw a select few, but there's a few that I haven't even seen since graduation night (you know who you are). I still message a few of my friends every once in a while, but it hasn't been the same. So then the summer ended and I had to move into college and there was pressure to meet new people and make friends. This is kind of what went on in my head when I moved in:
Fast forward six months...
I have a lot of friends. Or rather, I know a lot of people. That sort of happened at the beginning of the school year, but the six months helped me find a group of people that I love to hang out with. The past few nights prior to the writing of this article, I've been with this group of friends (plus or minus a few people) for at least four hours each evening which is something I never thought would be possible with my TV obsession
That's the end but...
I have to admit that I've never watched a full episode of "Friends."
I promise it's on my list of shows to watch, but I just haven't had the time yet.
