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My friend Joanne and I recently met up and over the course of our conversation, she mentioned that she thought that we’re more comfortable with the people we meet later in life, as our personalities and identities are more stable. This made sense to me – I’m not as close to the high school friends who knew me first as a shy, awkward and socially inept girl and much later as a fairly confident, extroverted young woman.
The concept of shyness, and introversion is so entirely foreign to me now, which is probably why the majority of my close friends today are ones that I’ve met at uni or work, sometime in the last three years. It’s not a fool-proof system – my go-to person for emotional (read: romantic) crises is still a girl from high school, and a so-called best friend from uni turned out to be a backstabbing bitch- which does, I suppose, call into question the logistics of friendship but that is, perhaps, the very beauty of it – that friends defy logic (and age and location and gender and race and pretty much every other barrier in the world).
.. in case you can’t tell, I’m procrastinating.
p.s I turned comments back on.