"You are the average of your five closest friends"
- Thread starter WigansAFC
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Don't you think that example is a little over the top?
It is. But my point is that friendship circles generally consist of people with similar backgrounds, languages, comparable socio-economics, interests. There will be many exceptions but they are not the norm.
Usually we make friends from work, neighbours, school, uni, sports groups - so there is usually some shared commonality.
I've found that your friends can be from many varied walks of life.
I used to play squash and golf and socialise with a barrister as a younger man, and am now very good friends with the guy who built our pool, as one example. Two totally different walks of life, but all 3 of us have similar brain f@rts.
Even your school friends - often they grow up and go in a different career path than you, yet you remain good friends with them and spend time with them socially.
The friendship side seems to last best when the mindset and beliefs of the friends are the same - irrespective of their career.
I have observed this many hundreds - if not thousands - of times through my years as a golf pro at various golf facilities - watching the Members.
For many of them; part of their commonality is golf, but they all enjoy each others company enough to keep on doing the social gathering, so the viewpoints and beliefs etc would also need to be compatible to a degree.
I used to play squash and golf and socialise with a barrister as a younger man, and am now very good friends with the guy who built our pool, as one example. Two totally different walks of life, but all 3 of us have similar brain f@rts.
Even your school friends - often they grow up and go in a different career path than you, yet you remain good friends with them and spend time with them socially.
The friendship side seems to last best when the mindset and beliefs of the friends are the same - irrespective of their career.
I have observed this many hundreds - if not thousands - of times through my years as a golf pro at various golf facilities - watching the Members.
For many of them; part of their commonality is golf, but they all enjoy each others company enough to keep on doing the social gathering, so the viewpoints and beliefs etc would also need to be compatible to a degree.
What do you do in Dubbo?
I've found generally that my closest friends have similar values to me, so it's a non-issue.
It depends on what is the most important thing to you. If it's investing, then perhaps you'll find your circle of friends are the ones with the same attitudes as you. Likewise if it was any other social activity. We like people because they like what we like.
You may find that you have different circle of friends for different activities you engage in.
Cycling around the zoo, walking around the zoo, visiting the thai restaurant, walking along the riverfront, cycling out to narromine, trangie,going to the gym, surfing the internet, playing tennis in south dubbo, attending B & S ball
I was asking the OP, but I've only done the first four. It's too flat for cycling generally.
Just do what I do; own a 12 year old heavy as a brick hybrid clunker...that makes you work hard.Can't you add a resistance attachment?
Nowadays you can lift bikes with 1 finger.
Better still; get a hybrid clunker with no gears.
