I am 21I have never really had a friend in my life. After first meeting people talking then exchanging contact information, I end up never talking to them again. I can't think of anything I could say to them to continue the relationship. Social anxiety may be the cause but I don't feel anxious around strangers. I'm not really sad about that any more I've leaned to be happy enough by myself and I talk to strangers every so often to fulfil social needs. I just feel like I'm missing out because most people have friends and they seem to enjoy being around them. Being a friend would nice I think need to lean how to stay in contact and text people to make friends. I think being able to read lots of peoples messages between their friends would help, but I couldn't find anything like that.Any advice is appreciated :)
>>34455271Did you have some specific activity to do when you were with these people? Or did you just exchange information and then wait for them to call you?Trust in people that are at first strangers develops slowly over time and you need a specific reason to get together. This is why people have clubs and activity groups. It’s the best way to get to know other people. No one is going to hang around with another stranger for no reason.
>>34455513>No one is going to hang around with another stranger for no reason.Now that you say it. I'm a bit retarded>need a specific reason to get togetherI don't do activities with people. don't really have any interests, I only go on trips to places because it's supposed to be healthy and so my family doesn't think I'm depressed when I talk to them. Clubs/activity groups have always felt awkward to me because it feels like paying for friends. This is prob a personality issue of mine that I have improve. It seems like my main problem is lack of interests. How do you develop interest when everything I do feels so boring?
