Being completely honest here, I have no idea how to make friends as an adult. Having such a protected life growing up, I never really adventured or did anything interesting and now it leads to conversations with new people that stall out quickly. This world is lonely and seeing my past friends succeed makes me incredibly happy, but reaching out to them when it feels like my world is still the same (but mildly worse) since high school feels…embarrassing. I thought my life would be different now and I wouldn’t be as scared to grow up, but I am. I’ve never felt so /stuck/ in my life. Also, sometimes this loneliness feels like I should try to revive friendships that maybe fizzled out for a reason.
It’s scary enough to navigate this world and to do it by yourself is even harder. I’m not really sure what has pushed me to write this whole thing out right now when I should definitely be working but I guess this was eating at me.