5 strategies for making friends as a working adult

For most people, loneliness doesn't stem from a lack of friends. It comes from not feeling connected to the friends you already have, while "peering in" on their lives via social media. (You can read more about this in the ancient text Big Friendship.) This problem is not fixable if you expect community to just happen naturally . It is fixable if y... See more

my new working theory on the loneliness crisis is to stop aiming to find friends. to make friends assumes an end goal. rather, aim to achieve the feeling of connectedness. a life filled with connectedness is someone who looks up when they walk around. they smile at the people

it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of N... See more