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My strategy is being so likeable that my friends insist on dragging me out to places even when my natural inclination is to nap at home and play video games when I'm not working or studying.
Sadly most of said friends have scattered to the four corners of the globe, but I'm moving too and don't really have issues making friends, though that gets difficult when you don't have an environment like college where you're forced to spend hours together and suffer through the same shit until you end up trauma-bonding. Most of the doctors at my workplace are (or now were) more senior to me, and the people at my level too busy with their own exams to have much in the way of a social life.
But I look forward to starting afresh, I don't have issues with making friends, and my sadness was mostly from what felt like Sisyphean struggles with no clear end in sight rather than because I miss human company too much. Said boulder has now reached a nice comfortable plateau, so I hope I can get out and see the scenery and drink my sorrows away.
And of course I'm here on The Motte because there are people I enjoy talking with, it's not a parasocial relationship because I genuinely end up, if not bosom friends, close enough that there plenty of people here I can hit up when either they or I are around.
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