How do you make friend's when you're older?
Random question I know. But valid I feel.
When you're young it's easy. You go to school, college, university and make FRIENDS. Most will then stick by your side for life, like my old school friend Erica for instance we met when we were 11 and have stayed friends ever since.
Some of your school friends will go off on their own little journeys and you may loose touch, however in general many friends from school and college seem to stick in your life even if it is only on Facebook.
Some of your school friends will go off on their own little journeys and you may loose touch, however in general many friends from school and college seem to stick in your life even if it is only on Facebook.
Living in Dubai...
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| Dubai early evening Feb 2015 |
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| Helen & Clare Elise in Dubai 2015 |
In Dubai I found eventually a small group of friends who became my family out there. You find that you see. In the expat community everyone's pretty much in the same boat. Everyone's living and working in Dubai and their families, by this I mean mum's, dad's and brothers / sisters etc. are miles away in their home countries.
My friends in Dubai were like brothers and sisters. Whenever you needed them they were there. When I was in hospital before having Baby Lewis and sick with my gallbladder problems all my Dubai friends were supportive, helpful and kind and when Lewis was born everyone was excited and everyone couldn't wait to meet him. The friendships I found in Dubai were truly special and each person that I met there I will forever treasure and cherish.
"Find A Friend"...
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| When we moved back to the UK |
As you know we moved back to the UK in August last year... and since then we've moved house yet again.
I'm not gonna lie this has made finding friends tough!
I got thinking about this whole "How do you make friend's when you are older" thing simply because it really is a strange one. I mean when you're at school or college you tend to make proper friends because you see them everyday and get to know each others lives. When you get older you might meet someone say at an event or something and get chatting for a little while and then you might meet up for a coffee a little while after, however after that you don't meet up again for maybe weeks or months because you are busy with family or work or something and before you know it that new found friendship's not had chance to blossom because things got in the way. Is this the case, when we are older are we just TO BUSY for friendship?
Friendship is important!
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| Clare Elise & Entertainer friend AJ |
Let's not forget about old friends and let's make some new friends as well.
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