tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008365570375864333.post8579698022136754912..comments2023-09-29T06:16:28.161-07:00Comments on WTF, I Have a Kid: Roughly a DozenJendra Berrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13529199296075685805noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008365570375864333.post-69282440193831152882010-07-14T17:29:12.604-07:002010-07-14T17:29:12.604-07:00It's not so much a desire for more and more fr...It's not so much a desire for more and more friends, but the realization making those friendships is very difficult for me in the first place. I am happy having a small core group of people in my life, and the roughly dozen or so aren't necessarily all active friendships. <br><br>It's just a sense that I feel lacking in a social function that makes me feel lonely sometimes, like a sense of apartness from others.<br><br>Of course it also makes me feel pretty appreciative of the friends I do have. I don't really have high turnover rates, so to speak :)Jendra Berrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13529199296075685805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008365570375864333.post-43336004942124415902010-07-14T13:19:07.021-07:002010-07-14T13:19:07.021-07:00I dunno... I tend to get along better with and hav...I dunno... I tend to get along better with and have more respect for people who maintain a smaller group of friends. It generally means that they value the friendships that they do have, and that they dedicate more time to those people. The larger a person's group of friends, the more shallow those friendships tend to be, and the more shallow the person themselves, I always find.<br><br>Maybe I'm just cynical. I admit that I love meeting new people, and I'm pretty social; I find it very easy to make new friends. But the core group of people who really matter to me stays pretty small, even if the membership changes a little bit from time to time -- it's otherwise pretty consistent.<br><br>If you're lonely, maybe you just need to add a few more names to your dozen -- make it a baker's dozen plus. ;) But having that dozen doesn't make you any less than a fully realized person.Alekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11977214289155398048noreply@blogger.com