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[plureevee]

At least I have them.

[sleepnoises]

Ask Polly: How Am I Supposed to Make Friends in My Late 20s?

Is there any creature alive with higher, more impossible standards than a 28-year-old? The only difference between a 28-year-old woman and a 38-year-old woman is that one of them tries to hide how few friends she has, and the other will email you out of the blue and demand to hang out after meeting you for exactly four seconds in a room full of retired people and divorced people and new moms. The late-30s woman knows that it’s no big deal to want to make new friends. Maybe it won’t be a life-changing time, or maybe you’ll be acquaintances, or maybe you’ll be vacationing together down the road. It’s worth a shot. [...] So the second thing I want you to know is that, in order to make very close friends in a natural, organic way, you have to cast a wide net and be accepting and give it time. You can’t use the aggressive, early twentysomething’s tactics, because it poisons the whole process to believe that you’re trying to hunt and trap the perfect BFF. [...] Some of your closest, lifelong friends may not seem like close, lifelong friends for the first five or six years you know them. Seriously. It takes time to figure out who matters, who listens, who tells the truth, who comes through in a pinch, who’s down to earth, who appreciates you and accepts your flaws, who says the right thing at the right time, and who makes sense all around. [...] The more you try — without skyrocketing expectations, without circular thoughts that say YOU ARE A FRIENDLESS FREAK — the easier it’ll be. The more you do it, the happier you’ll be, even if no lifelong friends emerge immediately. You should do it now in order to prepare you for doing it 20 years from now, because you’ll ALWAYS have to do it. You don’t just get the big group of buddies and then sleepwalk through the rest of your life. Life isn’t like that. [...] This life is not perfect. This world is not a perfect place. Sometimes it’s nice to sip a drink, and repeat yourself, among people who aren’t perfect, and don’t expect you to be perfect either. Aim low, open your heart, and let them in.

selected paragraphs (speedrun) of an ask polly that changed my life a little bit // Ask Polly: How Am I Supposed to Make Friends in My Late 20s? by Heather Havrilesky

[barghestia]

[evzachballmoments2006]

fabulian!!!! (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(⁠˘⁠⌣⁠˘⁠ ⁠)

quick midnight doodles hehe... ohh gof i love them i loveee them i lve i love i love i lookovvveee theeemtmmgmfhjdjgjdkvk AAHahahaAHHCJKFKCK💞💞💞

ive been getting into the "old man yaoi" lately.,, heeh... hhfuuffff i sware ill make a full drawing #SOON i have plans👀

ugh i take this "strokes bl" shit so seriously. it IS that serious.

[tyger-land]

𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗱 Broken Parts, a triptych. 2006.

[scaramutual]

good morning everyone wish me luck on the social interaction

[9of0]

Hi!! I saw Yōzō talking to you guys in this mirror, and I wanted to too :) So ! Hii whoever decides to answer this !! Jekyll's also in talking distance but. He'd probably just talk about boring science stuff -_- but, he's here regardless! Anyways, how different is your mirror world from ours :0 Is it just the people? Or are there other differences too? I saw Yōzō talking to a guy I didn’t recognize !

- ♥️ ( @lcb-but-not ) [// Alice is like. One of the only sinnerlings at the moment who'd actually talk to others unprompted:') Alas. She's on Antisocial's Georg]

[Icarus glanced at the Mirror, which had started its babbling again. He sighed a long-suffering sigh and picked it up, noting the smooth texture of the handle. As irritating as the Mirror-person's behavior is, he can't bring himself to snap just yet.]

It's just the people. Your group is more tolerable, less of that nonsensical blathering. That, and you lack a second Color.

[It tilts the Mirror, Li Zheng entering the field of vision—it wasn't unlikely that the same air of any other Color could be felt, but as with each one, there were nuances. As for Li Zheng, there was an unstable sting-crackle of instability.]

That is Li Zheng. She's the more preferable guide, not having such unnecessarily degrading comments to make, unlike our other 'guide'.

[... Well, that probably just meant that Li Zheng didn't talk at all. She waved a dry wave.]

Maybe you want to talk to her instead?

[The offer was so clearly an attempt to not deal with the Mirror.]

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[deermisfit]

Have you ever felt like the day is so calm that something terrible could happen at any moment?

Like, today’s been super chill… maybe a little too chill ^_^