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How to make a lot of friends - by Kasra - Bits of Wonder

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plus the pros/cons of having a lot of friends

I’ve experienced two versions of social life in New York: You know a handful of people in the city but you don’t ask them to hang out because it makes you anxious, no one invites you to things, and you spend most weekends entirely alone. On Friday nights you feel depressed that the workweek is ending and you have no plans, so you send an office-wide Slack message asking if anyone wants to get dinner, which of course no one responds to because they all have lives. You are invited to multiple parties every weekend (housewarmings, housecoolings, birthdays, salons, picnics, launch parties),…

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