The feeling of loneliness at times covers everyone. And then the question arises especially sharply: how many close friends a person should have. And how should they behave towards him in certain situations.
Instruction manual
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There are no clear rules regarding how many friends a person should have. As a rule, everyone has a circle of friends with whom you can have a good time, go on a trip somewhere or relax in nature. But such a relationship cannot be called very close and deep. As a rule, such comrades know little about each other, are not initiated into the deep secrets of the human soul. And if disaster suddenly happens, most of them disappear without a trace. And it turns out that you can rely on everything only on one or two of them. And sometimes it happens that one comes to the rescue of someone who had never occurred to be considered a friend. But if you were left without the help of friends in a critical situation, this does not mean that you do not have them: there are not so many people in the world who are willing to selflessly help and immerse themselves in other people's problems.
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Introverts and extroverts have a different number of friends. Introverts hardly make friendships, but they have very thin, sincere, deep relations with one or two comrades. Extroverts seem more frivolous, but in critical situations they have a wider circle of friends than introverts. Outward-oriented people, or extroverts, easily make friendships, but they hardly support it. However, their circle of superficial acquaintances can be quite large. An introvert can have only one or two true friends in a lifetime, and an extrovert can have a couple of dozen.
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Friendship change with age. For many people, the circle of friends depends on the stage of existence. At school - classmates, at the institute - classmates, at work - colleagues, and retired - grandmothers on a bench in the yard. There can be only a few people who, as a friend, pass with a person from birth to death. And someone does not have them at all, and this is normal.
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By the way, not only the quality of friends, but their number can vary with age. Moreover, there is no clear dependence when a person should have more friends. Pupils, who can be called the "soul of the company, " retired may be unsociable loners. And someone, on the contrary, having spent decades developing a career, only in adulthood realizes how important personal relationships and friendship are. And begins to catch up.
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In matters of friendship, the main thing is to understand what you need. And if you feel a lack of friends, you need to find ways to make them. If, on the contrary, you feel that your comrades are pumping you all the time, all the resources, is it time to stop and indulge in blissful loneliness?