heh, I only have like three real friends or so.
Cool, huh!
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I have a whole group of friends to hangout with. Most of them are guys though lmao. Well Lately I've been just hanging with my boyfriend Lol. Much Fun
Though my online friends im with all the time cause im on the net alot!
Though my online friends im with all the time cause im on the net alot!
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HikariChan - Posts: 1126
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Online friends... about 2 or so really close ones.
In person friends? none that live within 5 hours of me. I dont see my school friends often (they live ages away), and I haven't yet made any real close friends where I live now... save for my mummy. I would say my best friend is my mum! In these past few months we've really grown closer because not only have we both been having trouble settling, but I've begun to be more serious about my relationship with Jesus. Since my mum is the most spiritual and Jesus-like person I know, I've always turned to her when I have questions about the Bible or about Walking with Jesus in general.
Piece of advice for those with Christian parents... learn as much from them as you can! They know alot! They've lived longer than we have! XD Learn from their successes and mistakes
In person friends? none that live within 5 hours of me. I dont see my school friends often (they live ages away), and I haven't yet made any real close friends where I live now... save for my mummy. I would say my best friend is my mum! In these past few months we've really grown closer because not only have we both been having trouble settling, but I've begun to be more serious about my relationship with Jesus. Since my mum is the most spiritual and Jesus-like person I know, I've always turned to her when I have questions about the Bible or about Walking with Jesus in general.
Piece of advice for those with Christian parents... learn as much from them as you can! They know alot! They've lived longer than we have! XD Learn from their successes and mistakes
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Hey, GhostPoet, that's a pretty rad friend to have, though.
People I actually hang out with...
The ones I'd call close friends, probably four to five.
People I hang out with, fifteen to twenty.
People I actually hang out with...
The ones I'd call close friends, probably four to five.
People I hang out with, fifteen to twenty.
I'm a shoe-in for hater of the year.
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Kkun - Posts: 3604
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I have two friends and two other girls who I don't see very often.
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• Overreaction to irritations
• Loss of interest in activities previously enjoyed,
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• Slowed movement, thought and/or speech
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mai - Posts: 432
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I have about three friends that I keep in constant contact with and around ten others that I don't keep in regular contact with, but we're still friends and we see each other every so often.
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mastersquirrel - Posts: 696
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GhostPoet wrote:Wow, I feel like a loser now. =P
I have one friend...and that's my wife.
Why would that make you feel like a loser?
Actually, a lot of my married friends have said that their circle of friends tends to diminish after their marriage. As sad as it reads on paper, it's logical sense. After all, you now have a friend (and more) by your side for the rest of your life and you're necessarily going to concentrate more on them.
Plus, as a single guy, it can be hard to relate to friends who have recently become married because of that. You have to learn to deal with them as a unit instead of individually, and personality conflicts with the new partner aside (which, mercifully, has not happened with me in a big way), there will be scheduling conflicts, new dynamics, and the fact the new partner won't want to do the same kinds of social things. The now-new-third wheel has to learn to make the jump, and some people can't do it.
Most of my friends are married off now, and that does diminish how much I see them. Dropping like flies, as it were, but that's life.
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shooraijin - Posts: 9927
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Personally, I have about 10 good 'real-life" friends. I have a bunch of online friends, I suppose, but that's not the same thing.
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Godly Paladin - Posts: 2016
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shooraijin wrote:Most of my friends are married off now....
That must mean... YOU'RE NEXT! MWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
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EireWolf - Posts: 2496
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I have a handfull now. Moving on with things in my life has been really good for me. I actually have some of the best friends I have ever had in my life now. Besides my fiance' I actually have about 4 really close friends. And, we(my fiance' and I) have been accepted into a rather lively group of friends that love to go and do activites like; sports, traveling, and movies...loads of fun!
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shooraijin wrote:Why would that make you feel like a loser?
Actually, a lot of my married friends have said that their circle of friends tends to diminish after their marriage. As sad as it reads on paper, it's logical sense. After all, you now have a friend (and more) by your side for the rest of your life and you're necessarily going to concentrate more on them.
Plus, as a single guy, it can be hard to relate to friends who have recently become married because of that. You have to learn to deal with them as a unit instead of individually, and personality conflicts with the new partner aside (which, mercifully, has not happened with me in a big way), there will be scheduling conflicts, new dynamics, and the fact the new partner won't want to do the same kinds of social things. The now-new-third wheel has to learn to make the jump, and some people can't do it.
Most of my friends are married off now, and that does diminish how much I see them. Dropping like flies, as it were, but that's life.
On your comment about relating to married friends as a single guy....my wife and I can relate to that in a way...well, in the way that people our age who are married usually have kids by now and we don't really like kids...so we have a hard time relating to people WITH kids.
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GhostPoet - Posts: 96
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I have two friends locally. One is kinda insane and the other is married. So I don't see much of either of them.
Yeah, I think I'll go jump off a bridge now.
Yeah, I think I'll go jump off a bridge now.
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ShiroiHikari - Posts: 7564
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I have one close friend locally--my best friend from high school--but she lives 45 minutes away and goes to a different church (and she's as crazy busy as I am), but I have several acquaintances from church.
Online, I have several acquaintances, a few good friends, and a small circle of close friends....probably 4 or 5 I can truly call intimate. However, it works out just fine because I'm about to move 5 hours away anyway, and it's much less painful this way. ^^
I found that after high school is when my social circle was turned on its head. People I kind of hung out at at school were no longer to be seen, and even many of my friends outside of school were persuing their own careers and such, so my group of friends dropped tremendously. It wasn't painful; it's just part of life. Similiar, I would imagine, to getting married.
Online, I have several acquaintances, a few good friends, and a small circle of close friends....probably 4 or 5 I can truly call intimate. However, it works out just fine because I'm about to move 5 hours away anyway, and it's much less painful this way. ^^
I found that after high school is when my social circle was turned on its head. People I kind of hung out at at school were no longer to be seen, and even many of my friends outside of school were persuing their own careers and such, so my group of friends dropped tremendously. It wasn't painful; it's just part of life. Similiar, I would imagine, to getting married.
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Ashley - Posts: 7364
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Seems like most of us just have a small circle of close friends.
I have 6 close friends I hang out with locally, though one just moved away. I would have more, but I tend to fall off the face of the earth a lot.
And, I count some of my online friendies as real life friends, because we converse over the phone a lot and there's a huge/almost definite chance I'm going to get to meet them eventually. They know major and minor details of my life and vice versa. I have *thinks* 4 of those.
I'm pretty happy with what I have n_n
I have 6 close friends I hang out with locally, though one just moved away. I would have more, but I tend to fall off the face of the earth a lot.
And, I count some of my online friendies as real life friends, because we converse over the phone a lot and there's a huge/almost definite chance I'm going to get to meet them eventually. They know major and minor details of my life and vice versa. I have *thinks* 4 of those.
I'm pretty happy with what I have n_n
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dragonshimmer - Posts: 1422
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does it really matter how many friends one has? and the whole online friendship thing, no offense to ya'll but personally i don't think i could do that. unless i'm keeping in contact with someone i've met in real life. the internet cannot replace real human interaction.
gone for good...
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BigZam - Posts: 489
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BigZam wrote:does it really matter how many friends one has? and the whole online friendship thing, no offense to ya'll but personally i don't think i could do that. unless i'm keeping in contact with someone i've met in real life. the internet cannot replace real human interaction.
Yes, well, it's not for everyone n_n And it's not REPLACING human contact in most cases. I kind of see it as meeting amazingly insanely cool people you'd never normally meet under other circumstances.
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dragonshimmer - Posts: 1422
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Well, I dislike to be cliche, but God is my best friend, and we hang out constantly. I think that my brother is next (being in the same family makes it easier to hang out). Beyond that... things get tricky. There are some people that... well, I am their friend, but they are not my friend. Does that make sense? They consider me their friend, but I wouldn't consider them mine. I have plenty of aquaintences that would probably say that we are friends for the sake of our younger days when we played dress-up together, but at this point I'm not so sure about them. Of true friends I have very few.
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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
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Anna Mae - Posts: 1663
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I have about four close friends, about five or four regular friends, and some other friends that are slowly just becoming aquanitances.
I have more than I thought. O_O
I have more than I thought. O_O
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DevotedFriend - Posts: 15
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can't say i have that many friends. lost a lot when i went to college. they stayed in high school, and i never made a real effort to keep in touch with them. besides, they weren't Christians and it made a real big gap between me and them as there were things i didn't feel confortable talking to them with.
i wish i could say my brothers were my friends but circumstances keep that from happening and the same happens with my parents.
all i can say is that it is important to learn how to enjoy people while they are in our lives- after all, we cannot keep them from passing on one way or another...
i wish i could say my brothers were my friends but circumstances keep that from happening and the same happens with my parents.
all i can say is that it is important to learn how to enjoy people while they are in our lives- after all, we cannot keep them from passing on one way or another...
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ice122985 - Posts: 178
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i never made a real effort to keep in touch with them. besides, they weren't Christians and it made a real big gap between me and them as there were things i didn't feel confortable talking to them with.
Yeah...I feel you on that one. I've been there...a LOT of times.
all i can say is that it is important to learn how to enjoy people while they are in our lives- after all, we cannot keep them from passing on one way or another...
What a very wise and true statement.
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dragonshimmer - Posts: 1422
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None. I have some nice acquaintances though!
I had a "friend" last year, but she was rude and mean to me. My mom kept inviting her over to my house, which made me angry. I know that mom was just trying to help but she either didn't see what was going on, or ignored it.
Eventually the girl excluded me because she thinks I am competing for a boy that she likes. My mom finally saw the truth and stopped trying to push friendship on me.
Then I have a friend that I spent a lot of time teaching about art and anime, but now thinks that she is better than me and continues to remind me every time I see her. She also has an "I'm tougher than you" complex, which annoys me because every girl I meet seems to have this.
Maybe everyone in the universe is tougher than me, but why does that matter? Can't people just be my friend? I don't want to fight with them, so why do they keep bringing that up? @_@ This stinks. Everyone pretends to be afraid of me just because I have a knife fetish but no one respects me. >_< It's the worst of both worlds!
Maybe I just need to make a little more effort! *tries harder to make friends*
I had a "friend" last year, but she was rude and mean to me. My mom kept inviting her over to my house, which made me angry. I know that mom was just trying to help but she either didn't see what was going on, or ignored it.
Eventually the girl excluded me because she thinks I am competing for a boy that she likes.
My mom finally saw the truth and stopped trying to push friendship on me.
Then I have a friend that I spent a lot of time teaching about art and anime, but now thinks that she is better than me and continues to remind me every time I see her. She also has an "I'm tougher than you" complex, which annoys me because every girl I meet seems to have this.
Maybe everyone in the universe is tougher than me, but why does that matter? Can't people just be my friend? I don't want to fight with them, so why do they keep bringing that up? @_@ This stinks. Everyone pretends to be afraid of me just because I have a knife fetish but no one respects me. >_< It's the worst of both worlds!
Maybe I just need to make a little more effort! *tries harder to make friends*
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I have three or four really good friends, and quite a few acquaintance type friends.
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inkhana - Posts: 3670
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I don't like this thread.
T.T
In person? I guess maybe my brother.
I consider a lot of you guys online my friends, but I don't know whether it's returned or not, and if I think about it too hard my head starts to hurt.... : (
T.T
In person? I guess maybe my brother.
I consider a lot of you guys online my friends, but I don't know whether it's returned or not, and if I think about it too hard my head starts to hurt.... : (
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
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People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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I have a really good friend, 
and he can be your friend too, 
because we all can have a friend... in Jesus. 
What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.
God Bless
~HS5000
and he can be your friend too, because we all can have a friend... in Jesus.
What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.
God Bless
~HS5000
Live your life, love the Lord, and don't forget to laugh...
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Good Advice: [I] “To get friends you must be a friend.â€
Live your life, love the Lord, and don't forget to laugh...
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holysoldier5000 - Posts: 771
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I have 2 close friends and one who used to be close but recently we have become so different that I can no longer really relate to him at all. I don't have any online friends, because strangely I tend to be more withdrawn online than in real life. Plus I don't think I represent myself well when I type.
[quote="holysoldier5000"]Good Advice: “To get friends you must be a friend.â€
[quote="holysoldier5000"]Good Advice: “To get friends you must be a friend.â€
- Lyren
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For really good ones, I have about two online and two IRL (besides my cousins, one of which is one here). I have a friend a church, but it turns out we're actually quite different from each other, sometimes in very... strange ways.
My best friend would be one of my friends at school. He's Christian, really cool, and nearly everyone in our class seems to know him (though it doesn't seem like he's trying to).
My other "friends" are more like those I'm just around, though there's one who's not a Christian and seems to hate me, but he's a friend of my best friend and all three of us sit together in the morning, so... I'm gettin' to him.
My best friend would be one of my friends at school. He's Christian, really cool, and nearly everyone in our class seems to know him (though it doesn't seem like he's trying to).
My other "friends" are more like those I'm just around, though there's one who's not a Christian and seems to hate me, but he's a friend of my best friend and all three of us sit together in the morning, so... I'm gettin' to him.
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