Over the past couple of weeks I have really thought about why it is so hard to make friends in a city as big as London. I know a lot of people but there are very, very few that I would actually call my friends. I really do feel that I need to have friends in my life in order to make me feel happy and complete but it seems like the friends that I have right now are not doing a very good job.
I want to know that I can count on my friends for anything but beyond that I want to actually spend time with them. I have some friends that just message me on Facebook but I never see cos they are “too busy,” and I have other friends that you need to fucking book an appointment 2 weeks in advance just to have a fucking coffee with them! So is this what it has come down to? In 2010 has friendship turned into endless Facebook messages, texts and penciling people in on our busy schedule to try and make that friendship connection?
I seriously hope not cos while I know London is a HUGE city I also know that there are tons of people that make and have really good friends here as well. I met one of my very best friends when I first moved to London and even though he no longer lives here, we always keep in touch and I have visited him in Brazil and he has also come back to visit me. That to me is friendship, making an effort to keep in touch no matter what.
In this day and age when everything is fast, instant and interchangeable, hopefully we will not start applying these to other parts of our lives that should never be those things and let me just say right here and now Friendships falls into the latter category.
