The Friend Manual: How to make friends when you're bad at it

Friendship is hard.

Making friends is hard.

Keeping friends is harder.

I wish there was an instruction manual for how friendship works.

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  • Hi! Can I say something petty?

    Every once in a while I just need to say something awful or stupid or exciting or just a jumbled mass of words, paragraphs, images, monologues, or petty grievances. Sometimes the content just a series of successive events that I can’t quite close out. And other times, maybe something gets triggered, which triggers something else,…

  • When small talk is animal talk

    What if a conversation subtext makes more sense as a nature show soundtrack? Like, when we’re chirping at each other. Or, when we’re just pinging. Maybe we’re trying to prove something. Or share good feelings.

  • The Big Thing! Conundrum

    The longer you live on the earth, the more times you will experience interruptions in friendships due to big things happening. Everyone has big things happen. Maybe they need to go somewhere different, like off to another college. Or maybe they have to go on a personal quest or discover a new belief system or…

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