As much as “meeting new people” can be exciting and interesting, it can also be very stressful to simply make friends in a group full of strangers and find where you belong. Whether it’s the first day of kindergarten, middle school, high school, or college, it is an extremely high pressured situation to be in.

At the end of the day, everyone desires a place to fit in. To feel accepted for themselves and have other people to have fun experiences, spend time, make memories and laugh with. When you have a “friend group” or clique of friends, the parameters of the group are basically defined by a group chat, group hangouts or parties, and social media so everyone knows that you’re “squad goals. ”

Then there are the others. The people who may have a few friends in each group. Sometimes they feel as if they don’t have a home or that guaranteed invitation to that party even though they are friendly with the people there. Rather than feeling as if this is a bad thing and means that there must be something wrong that you don’t have your clique, this just means that you can simply get along with a bunch of different kinds of people. Learn to embrace the fact that you may not have a group and just become a friendly and outgoing person no matter where you are. There are going to be different friends for different activities and this can lead to building even stronger connections in your community, other communities, even as far as the whole world. The title of a group chat, all of the pictures and friendship PDA is over rated. In the end of the day doesn’t matter what the rest of society thinks of your companionship with others, rather how and the only thing that does matter is the quality rather than quantity of friends. You don’t need a “friend group” to fit in, but more so learn to take pride in being the friendly , friend group-less, floater .