Recent research indicates people no longer have close friendships. However they are important to your happiness and wellbeing. Friends can offer you an important means of support. Also the support you can offer a friend can be highly satisfying and an important way to boost your mood. A friendship can bring important benefits to the both of you.
Focusing on your friends and relationships rather than material things or simple pleasures will reduce your feelings of depression. Friendships can boost mood, increase self esteem as well as easing stress and worries. Research at Flinders University has found that having close friends can help you live longer. In fact friends reduced the risk of dying by 22% over a 10 year period.
Your friends are there for you to share the good times with. Friends will be truly happy for your successes. Time with friends should be about doing things that make the both of you happy. It should not be about bringing each other down. If some of your friends frequently fail to offer support and sap your confidence and happiness, you may want to ask if they are actually your friend. Remember you can choose your friends. Make sure they have a positive influence on your life, and make you feel good about yourself.
Work to make time for your friends. Email them, phone them, write a letter or send a quick text. Try to arrange a time on a regular basis to meet up. Take the opportunity to phone them and ask how they're doing without dumping all your worries on them.
Do you want more friends? Join a group or class that you are interested in is a good way of meeting people. Chatting in online discussion groups can provide you with friends throughout the world. Else you could get yourself a pen pal. Your friends can live all over the world.
You do not need hundreds of friends. A handful of people you can rely on and trust is plenty so don't feel what you have isn't good enough. Remember: don't take your friends for granted; make time for them and nurture them.
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