Posted by octopusprime on March 26, 2004, at 19:19:54
In reply to Re: how do you guys meet healthy people? » bookgurl99, posted by noa on March 26, 2004, at 18:42:58
> activities and clubs---join a book group, an outdoors club, groups that do volunteer work? Make friends with co-workers?
noa, this is good advice for making acquaintances and sharing new experiences.
i frequently wonder about bookgurl's question myself. i meet people by going to new activities, etc., but i only ever seem to make that "connection" -- you know, in the cosmic understanding sense of the term -- with the slightly nutty.
i don't know what it is. i seem to inexplicably draw problems out of people. i can see hurt where it has been buried. and it's this understanding, even if it is unspoken, that bonds.
i'm trying to break the pattern and i don't know how. i'm settling for superficial social interaction with the superficially "normal", and failing that, withdrawal. but i'd love to make deeper and more lasting friendships of the sort i had when i was in school, but preferably with people with stable emotional makeups. it's hard.
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