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Paranoid or mixed up?

  • 25-02-2011 9:33pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I was unsure how to title this? I have a tendency to think I dont have enough friends. I have a few but most are married with kids and rarely go out. I am married but we have no kids and a bit sick of arranging things which involves their offspring. Even arranging things without kids seems just as problematic. Im sick of being an organiser .

    I have joined a group/course where I live (I dont want to be specific) which involves socialising. However, I still feel that other people have better social scenes than myself. In work it annoys me when the younger staff dont ask me out ! It annoys me when the girls do lunch. Im male. I do have one close friend in work but he is seemingly never free to go out.

    I suppose I have an idealised notion that everyone out there has plenty of friends and I am some sort of social outcast. I dont know if this makes any sense ?


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  • #2
    eddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭eddison


    Sorry, I think allot of people would like to have your problems :D Seriously, you have to start adding up what you have instead of what you do not have. Make a list of both. It sounds like the 'have' list would be very long.

    The simple lesson of being content with what one has, can be ruined by expectations in life, making millions unhappy, and malcontented. Expecting this and that, and to be this, and to be that, and to have this by this time etc, leads to frustration, because even if you get all those things, you will gain even more expectations.
    Open your ears, and listen to those who are prepared to give you feedback. they are most valuable in life, and should be treasured. Look for feedback and act accordingly. Then go and make friends, join a club, take an evening class, learn to play a musical instrument is a great way to meet people, and this country is the envy of the world for folk music.


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