(Kloro, it would be good to catch up, send me your email, you should be able to email me though my profile...)
My good friend Dylan suprised me with a visit yesterday, and we wandered around my 'hood a bit, got some Thai, et cetera. It was good to see him again, and he asked me about Portland. I had actually just been talking about that subject with one of my Portland friends... ahem, let me restate that, my ONLY Portland friend the night before.
Dylan asked me how I was liking Portland and I said that I liked it fine, however I have not been terribly sucessful is making friends. Talking with Dylan made be realize just how much easier it was to make friends when I was younger-- why is that? Have I changed, or have the people around me changed?
When I was younger, like when I was at Apple or Microsoft, I felt that I had a good number of friends, of course back then I worked in teams and had to deal with other people to meets goals. In my current job at a call center, I really don't work with my co-workers all that much. I think that it also has a lot to do with the fact that most people my age are involved with kids and families and are not really in that "lets make friends" place.
I can see why many people choose to stay in one place for thier entire lives. It sucks when you are in your twenties, but then you get a little older and having a few familiar faces can make all the difference.
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