Feel Good Friday #19: Making Friends As An Adult
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🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Feel Good Friday episode is about a topic nearly everyone has struggled with at some point: making friends as an adult.
When you’re a kid, making friends is all about proximity, but as you get older it gets a little more complicated. After you finish school and are no longer surrounded by people your same age, or from your same area, how’s a Balanced Black Girl supposed to make friends? Let’s discuss some tips to help you meet an amazing squad.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion. |
| 0:07.0 | This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for |
| 0:15.0 | tuning into the Balance Black Girl podcast. I am so excited to bring you |
| 0:18.8 | another feel-good Friday episode. In today's episode we're going to talk about a topic that I think a lot of people struggle with and that is making friends as an adult. |
| 0:32.0 | This is definitely something that I have had my fair share of challenges |
| 0:36.4 | with over the years, but I can say that personally over the past year or so I have connected with some incredible |
| 0:46.2 | people and made some incredible friends that even though they maybe weren't |
| 0:50.3 | childhood friends or I didn't grow up with them or haven't known them |
| 0:54.5 | for really extended periods of time have formed some really genuine wonderful |
| 0:59.2 | bonds with awesome people that I am really grateful to have. And I know when you are outside of an |
| 1:07.1 | environment such a school, high school, college, it can be really, really hard to |
| 1:12.2 | make those bonds, but it is entirely possible and that is what we're |
| 1:17.3 | going to talk about today. |
| 1:19.8 | So the reason why making friends as an adult tends to feel so hard is because it's kind of unnatural. |
| 1:28.0 | When you think about your childhood friends or the people who you have been friends with for a long time. |
| 1:34.0 | Oftentimes, and I'm not saying this to discredit the incredible friendships that you |
| 1:40.0 | have, but most of the time those friendships come from proximity. It is because you |
| 1:45.6 | shared a class, it is because you were on the same team, it was because your parents were |
| 1:50.3 | friends and you spent a lot of time around each other. That's not to say that you |
| 1:54.0 | didn't form strong wonderful bonds, but largely when you're young proximity is |
| 1:59.7 | kind of the name of the game when it comes to making friends. |
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