No friends to socialise with

LegacyUser

I am a guy, 25, and I am struggling to socialise lately. It's not that I don't have any friends, it's just that they are very anti-social.

I try all the time to get them to do something like going to the cinema or meeting up for drinks, but they are never enthusiastic about it and I have to (try) force them to do things. It's like they'd rather stay in watching TV.

I don't think they're just trying to avoid me because even when other friends attempt to organise things they don't bother.

Weekend after weekend goes by with me sitting on my tod doing nothing. As bad as it sounds, is it time to find new friends? What good is a friend if they don't want to hang out and chat? A friendship shouldn't require effort, but it sounds like they're struggling to stay with me and other friends.

Any advice?

Passenger

Just do your own thing, OP. Do the things that you enjoy doing with or without their company. Organise something to do by yourself (Cinema, Gig, Pub, etc.) and invite them along and if they decline you won't be missing out. You're depriving yourself of doing all the things you want to do because you're relying upon others to do it with and chasing them has become frustrating as they're proving to be non-reciprocating friends. Friendship takes more than one person. Just get out there and live your life. You'll expose yourself to other people and maybe make new friends in the process.

SepTomBer

Find new people to hang with. You only live once, enjoy it.

But that doesn't mean you're leaving your old friends behind.