Making friends

**Posts:** 3 · by **Quiggles** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 3:28 am

So I don't know if this exactly goes here, hopefully it does, anyway I'm Sean, I'm a 16 year old male from South Florida and I have quite a few issues. Not too many, more of a never ending circle. So I guess I should start with my current situation. I am home schooled, mother is in the hospital for cancer, luckily on the back end of it and will be recovering soon, father works alot and has alot of stress. Both of my parents are amazing people and I love them so much, so no issues there. I am sadly slightly overweight but I'm working on that. But my reason for posting is that I have no friends outside of the Internet, and I'm starting to feel really lonely. I just don't know how to make them or where to go or anything about it. It's also effecting my physically, I have no friends to hang out with or go to so I sit still home on my pc all day and game, only gaining more weight. My goal is to lose weight and, since I'm being totally honest here, get a sort of feminine look going for me, but that's hard since I am very masculine and thats hard to change, but I hope I can. Back on track, I just want to make some friends and I am stuck not knowing how. So if anyone has any tips or tricks, or is actually near me (Miami, Florida) and wants to know more about me, add me on skype: akumabrony. Thanks for reading and have a nice day <3

**Posts:** 12131 · by **Richard@DecisionSkills** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 1:22 pm

You make friends offline, by spending time out of your house and offline. At 16 you can join sports leagues, clubs, volunteer, you can hang out at coffee shops, you can get a part-time job, you can go the the gym, etc. When I was 16 I worked at "Charlie's Chicken".

Bottom line, at 16 you should be spending a huge chunk of time out of the house. At least 4 hours a day should be doing something out of the house.

**Posts:** 3 · by **Quiggles** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 1:34 am

Richard@DecisionSkills wrote:You make friends offline, by spending time out of your house and offline. At 16 you can join sports leagues, clubs, volunteer, you can hang out at coffee shops, you can get a part-time job, you can go the the gym, etc. When I was 16 I worked at "Charlie's Chicken".

Bottom line, at 16 you should be spending a huge chunk of time out of the house. At least 4 hours a day should be doing something out of the house.

Thanks for the reply man, and I know I need too, but its hard because there isn't much in my area in the way of clubs, and Im not really into sports at all, so thats hard to do, plus my parents really won't let me go anywhere since I have no way to go to places.

**Posts:** 12131 · by **Richard@DecisionSkills** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:14 am

Quiggles wrote:Thanks for the reply man, and I know I need too, but ...

But, but, but...

Eliminate that word from your vocabulary. It is probably in the top 5 worst words people use... I would go to college, but...I would travel the world, but..., I would hike achieve my goals, but, but, but...

Stop living a life of but and start living a life of can. You can shut down your computer, you can choose not to play video games, you can go for a walk, you can do a lot of things. Stop using but, start using can.

**Posts:** 3 · by **Quiggles** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:22 am

Richard@DecisionSkills wrote:
Quiggles wrote:Thanks for the reply man, and I know I need too, but ...

But, but, but...

Eliminate that word from your vocabulary. It is probably in the top 5 worst words people use... I would go to college, but...I would travel the world, but..., I would hike achieve my goals, but, but, but...

Stop living a life of but and start living a life of can. You can shut down your computer, you can choose not to play video games, you can go for a walk, you can do a lot of things. Stop using but, start using can.

Well, thanks for that, I really needed to hear something like that, and I will get right on that. I gotta thank you for saying some of the nicest things I've heard in a while.

**Posts:** 117 · by **Jamie514** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:36 am

Making friends is a good option to improve your self esteem. I think I'll also start making lots of friends as well offline.

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