IRL Friends? Page 2

Started by Kanzler March 28th, 2016 6:11 PM
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Social life? What's that?

Due to various factors - my health, my interests, and my personal preference - I'm a complete recluse. I don't socialise at all, I've lost all contact with everyone I knew in real life - and I don't mourn that at all - and I don't really have any IRL friends to speak of. I've never been big on socialising, even when I was younger; people had to practically force me to socialise once I started Secondary School. It started out as a perceived necessity (I didn't really want people finding out about my health problems, and it was easier to just avoid them than it was risk having them pick up on it) before I just started preferring my own company.

That said, I do keep in touch with one person I've known since Primary School. We were in the same class at school, and we studied the same courses at College and University (at least before he dropped out and I started to see less of him) so we've known one another for quite a long time. I haven't seen him for nearly three years now, although we still talk fairly regularly (read: once or twice a month) online. We have similar interests, and like me he's a recluse, so it suits both of us to keep our contact limited to this even though it'd only take us half an hour, if that, to visit one another. I'd count him more as an online acquaintance now than an IRL one.

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Age 27
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Posted December 7th, 2017
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I have a pretty wide social circle I think? I tend to divide them up based on when in my life I met them and where we are in our friendship.

So I have a group of five people who I would say are my closest friends, I talk to them every day and we see each other as often as possible. I'm living away from my hometown for University though so it's not as often as we'd all like but they're like my homegirls. Then I have a few other people who I went to school with that I see from time to time when I'm back home.

I have three people from 6th form that I'm in regular contact with and see a lot and then I have my university friends who I see the most at the moment considering not only do I share a house with some of them but I also am studying the same thing as most of my university friends so I see them in class all the time and I hang out with them a lot outside of class time too.

So uh I have a pretty good social life I think? I get out the house whenever I can and 'socialise'...
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