Most people love being the life of the party and enjoy being surrounded by many individuals who they label as their friends. While this works for many and those who live in accordance to this lifestyle, there are many others who find themselves having a hard time trying to deal with so many people. This leads to the possible theory that the number of people whom you choose to call friends and try to develop relationships with can directly correlate to the amount of stresses you experience on a daily basis. While having friends provides multiple outlets to which you can use to try and relieve yourself of the stress of miscellaneous issues; having too many friends can cancel this process out and leave you with more stressful things to deal with than before. Now, this article isn't meant for you to abandon those you have relationships with and fall off the face of the earth and start your life over under a rock in some foreign land. No, no, no! Instead, this article is meant to provide insight into how having a bigger circle can lead to bigger problems.

Just stop and think about the amount of problems that you experience weekly that are on social, emotional, and mental levels and think about how much weight you carry just on those problems alone. It's definitely not a feathery burden. So after you've calculated the amount of stress you deal with when it comes to your own personal issues, go ahead and think about how every person that you choose to be someone whom you call "friend" has the same if not more personal issues in their own life. So now take out your calculator and let's make this into a proper algebraic equation. See your high school math teacher who unearthed feelings of depression and rage wasn't lying to you when they said math would come in handy one day. Anyways let's begin writing our equation. Let's make the variable "P" equal our own personal stresses which we can have be our constant because we tend to know the things we generally stress about on a daily basis. Next, let's make "N" our varying number of friends we have. Finally let's go ahead and make "S" be the amount of stress we experience. So our equation is going to look a little something like this, P + S(N) = S. What this equation is basically stating is that if we add our personal stress to the product of stresses attached to each friend we have, we are left with the overall amount of stress we may come into contact with. So the more friends we have, the bigger our "N" variable becomes leading to a bigger solution which is not what we want.

Now, let it be known that this equation has been made by a struggling math student but we get the overall idea. All we need are a few people that we can trust and confide in and go to with our problems. The more people that we have in our circle means that we have to deal with more people's drama, stress, and usual petty issues. Plus, it's a lot harder to be true friends when you are friends with a great amount of people. It's too difficult and near impossible to get to know each and every one of your so called friends on a deep and personal level. Keep a couple people around who you know make your life what it is and contribute to your well being. Let them be there for you and you for them. Quantity may not always be quality and our lovely equation speaks for itself on that matter.