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Making new friends

I'm 20 years of age and I lead a fun life at uni and have a lot of friends. However, when I come home for holidays I get so bored. I only really have two friends from school, 1 of who is away to Greece for a year and the other is working in a different part of the country.

At 20 years of age, is it possible to make new friends (away from uni) or has everyone already formed the groups they want to be with?

At work I've made a couple of general friends but I'm not sure how I would approach them to do something with them outside of working hours.

I get the feeling that I'm a guy a lot of people get on well with but I'm not interesting enough to spend a lot of time with.
Anonymous
I'm 20 years of age and I lead a fun life at uni and have a lot of friends. However, when I come home for holidays I get so bored. I only really have two friends from school, 1 of who is away to Greece for a year and the other is working in a different part of the country.

At 20 years of age, is it possible to make new friends (away from uni) or has everyone already formed the groups they want to be with?

Mein Gott. Why wouldn't it be possible? If people don't want to spend time with you, fine, they're not as good friends as you would like them to be - they're not suddenly automatically irrefutably right, but they're not necessarily complete bastards. I bet there are loads of people out there just like you thinking exactly the same. Be friends with some of them - and trust me, the others aren't worth dealing with. :smile:

You can be the most fun guy in the world but unless you go out to try and make friends you will look cold and withdrawn, and no one will dare.