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What do you think?
We as social humans should we really have a lot of friends or feel like we have to be in social circles or are we better off with a few people in life?
Odd question, but No, I've never felt "required" to have lots of friends. My twin brother and I had mostly the same friends when we were in school though.
Lots? No, I don't feel that way. All my life I've never had more than a couple close friends at at time, really. My mother used to harp that I should be "more outgoing" but that was when I was a child...after that time nobody has ever really indicated that it was any sort of problem.
Although I have never felt "forced"to have friends, I have often felt that many people thought I was odd because I have never had more than one or two good friends and three or four casual friends at a time. (Most of my life I have only had one or two friends, total.)
Now, at age 62, I think it is important that people decide for themselves how many friends to have. As long as I have an S.O. who loves me and is my best friend, that is enough for me.
Only when people questioned it or pointed it out to me. My mother admitted to wondering why I never went out or had any boyfriends. I have recently made quite a few friends at my college. Now she wonders when or if I'll get a boyfriend. Meh.
I think society as a whole puts a lot of emphasis on relationships in general.
No...I recall having one best friend as a kid in Ohio and one best friend when we moved to California.
I'm talking the 50's and 60's. I still am in touch with both, although they live in Ohio and Georgia and
I'm now in Colorado. Met my husband in high school, we are still together, were married 46 years ago.
I was never very social or felt I needed the approval of many.
Hardly. People are lucky to find 1 or 2 true friends in their life. Most of the "friends" people have are fair weather acquaintances they happen to hang out with from time to time.
This day in age people think of facebook people as "friends". Which is laughable.
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