<p>Or "friends" who don't really feel like friends? Just wondering how common it is.</p>
<p>No, I’m pretty much swimming in a sea of close acquaintances with whom I spend much of my free time.</p>
<p>I have one named palmella…and thats it I think.</p>
<p>Well, I can understand how some people don’t feel any real connection with other people, I feel that often, but I also have someone who I feel a bit too close too… I’d say that most people have friends and feel they have friends. It’s tough to be anti-social anyways.</p>
<p>None here.</p>
<p>I talk to people in school all the time and go out sometimes but no real close friends. The best friends I once had, drifted away somehow.</p>
<p>a handful of people i’d consider “friends”, and then just a bunch of close acquaintances i spend my time with.</p>
<p>No, I have a cornucopia of real life friends who I enjoy being with.</p>
<p>I’m sorry OP…but based on all the threads you have made and what you have written in them hinting at being a recluse, I lol’d really hard.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have lots of stages of friends.</p>
<p>There are maybe seven hundred people I recognize and would say hi to.
There are about a hundred and fifty people I would stop to chat with.
There are about fifty people I actually hand out with, that are in my circle of what I consider “friends.”
There are about fifteen people I hang out with on a one-on-one regular basis.
There are a few people who know me like I know myself and I could fairly call my “best friends.”</p>
<p>Way to rub it in OP’s face, christian. haha</p>
<p>Lol, CC is seriously ****ing funny today.</p>
<p>I once had someone who would say hi to me, then I started clinging to him and he started ignoring me. now my moose massage roller thingy is my best friend because it won’t run away from me</p>
<p>^ LOL. </p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Well I’m just saying maybe he has lots of Stage 1 and Stage 2 friends and just needs to start moving people toward Stage 5.</p>
<p>^^I once stepped outside, I was instantly burnt by the sun rays</p>
<p>I didn’t make any close friends until the end of my senior year of high school.
That was when all of us were becoming sentimental because the realization that we had just driven through four years together and that we would now part was just sinking in.
Also, tons of unstructured free time every day, during which I would have heart-to-hearts with one, two, or three guys in the empty cafeteria.</p>
<p>Likewise, I only have one close friend in college to whom I can really confide, but the only reason we came together and bonded so well was because we are both very much outsiders at our college.</p>
<p>So, those of you in high school, don’t despair. Friendships, like relationships, just happen. They also require some give and take, and time to grow.</p>
<p>I used to not have friends. We moved to another country, and I became morbidly depressed. I went to school, talked to no one, came home and slept. I didn’t talk to anyone my age outside of school. I ate and spent lunch alone. </p>
<p>at my lowest point, i seriously considered suicide.</p>
<p>I switched schools, and I am absolutely in love with my school. I have lots of friends.</p>
<p>my advice? join clubs, get a job, volunteer, whatever. go places and talk to people.</p>
<p>I would but when I meet somebody I blush pink and words just seem to come out of my mouth, except all I talk about are my blankie and bedtime stories</p>
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<p>Lol I guess I’ve realized that my main goal in life to make people laugh at me. It’s actually somewhat rewarding. :p</p>
<p>PS: there are many, many more threads under another name. ;)</p>
<p>I’m a vampire. And I’m also very white. So I don’t really like exposing myself to the sun… I rarely venture outside my room. I spend 20 hours a day on CC and only sleep 4 hours because I’d rather be on CC than getting adequate sleep. I eat while on CC, watch TV while being on CC, and even exercise on my indoor treadmill while I’m on CC. COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL is my BFF.</p>
<p>no but for real there are like maybe five people I consider friends. Like I hang out with them outside of school. Then maybe another five I would like to have more contact with but can’t seem to make it happen… However, sometimes I think I only connect superficially with other human beings; like I have this outer part of me that I expose to others and that interacts with them and all that. And then there’s ME, my self, and I wonder about how close I could really be to another person. Obviously there’s a limit, there’s a boundary between me and them, and sometimes I feel it’s rather unbridgeable and I’m just sort of being fake. But generally I don’t get so over-analyzing-y and don’t think about it… and, you know, just have fun with my friends. I do wonder sometimes, though…</p>