my father always told me: "if you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, likeminded people will find you themselves." and only recently have I realized that this principle works everywhere.

If you feel socially neglected and emotionally understimulated, I promise you can make really deliberate decisions about how you invest your time & energy for a year and your life will be filled with so many friends it’ll be unrecognizable