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How alike are you and your (current and former) friends ? Do you have a lot of common interests, topics of conversation, personality traits etc. ? Or do you tend to have a few things you're exactly alike and the rest you're polar opposites ?
I'm involved in a bunch of different clubs, I have many different hobbies and I'm interested in a wide variety of topics, but although I may have a particular thing in common with these 'friends', I rarely (if ever) share anything beyond a couple things with any one of them.
For example; the friends that are into cars don't have any interest in motorbiking, my motorbiking friends have zero interest in business or art, my hiking friends have zero interest in cars or motorbikes, my artist friends have no interest in ... (I could go on and on - but you get the idea).
When I had friends that shared a lot of similarities, there was always jealousy and competiveness involved. So now I prefer making friends with people who quite different from me plus it makes it interested since I'm someone who loves to learn about new things and prefer we not all be clones of each other.
I tend to have a lot of friends who are artists like I am. I'm in my 40s, so it's hard to meet and become friends with people other than through art. I do have a lot of friends of all ages, however. Some are decades younger and others are decades older. It doesn't seem to really matter at this stage in life, for some reason. Not like it would have when I was younger. It seemed that I had friends only close to my own age when I was a younger person. Now I'm an equal opportunity "friender."
I actually have fairly little in common except a common set of religious beliefs with most of my friends. I do not share a lot because I think differently about some things than they do. Sometimes I feel that I very lonely in these friendships, but I guess I adjust.
I am trying to find a few friends outside my immediate circle though.
I have enough in common with my friends. That should suffice.
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