I Want My Friends To Impose On Me

Never hesitate to call me, to talk to me, to impose yourself on me.

Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash

It’s hard to make friends as an adult.

When you’re in school, it’s much easier to make friends, of course. You’re shoved in a building with the same people five days a week for most of the year, so you’re bound to find a few people with whom you share some level of weirdness. Inevitably, you become friends.

Maybe not friends forever, but still. These are people that you often spend a dozen years with, including most of the worst years in terms of awkwardness and growth. You may grow together, you may grow apart, but you are stuck with each other, so friendships are more or less inevitable. Even those who are unpopular almost always have a few friends.

When you become an adult, it becomes much harder to make friends. In college, you may or may not share classes with the same people each semester, so it can be a bit more difficult. Still, there are common areas where you can often find people who share your interests, and there are clubs and extracurriculars that can give you more opportunities there too.

Still, when you wind up at a job, whether out of high school or out of college, it all goes downhill. Work is a good place to make “work friends,” but most of the time, you…