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The original was posted on /r/makenewfriendshere by /u/cerebrumfog on 2023-08-07 20:09:44+00:00.

someone once told me that bad days can only be as bad as you allow them to be, which i guess is true. but i woke up today feeling positive (for once!) and my day still sucked. mondays are the worst and should be cancelled, but if we did that, would tuesdays be just as bad? need some thoughts before i consider sleeping through my mondays.

but i think it’s days like today where we should push ourselves a little out of our comfort zones, so here i am: trying to make new friends. i don’t care about your gender, or what you look like, or anything in the same vein. i do care about your age, because i’m not a babysitter and i don’t want to talk to anyone younger than 21. i’d prefer not to talk to anyone 10+ years older than me either, as a personal preference. i care a lot about your interests because hearing people talk about things they’re passionate about makes me happy. i have a bunch of interests myself (reading, gaming, deepdiving into random subjects that take my interest, never finishing tv series, buying too many milka shakes, pointing to a field of cows and saying “cows!”), but still trying to find my Real Passion in life. i’m the least social person, terrible at small talk and have some difficulty warming up to strangers (#JustIntrovertThings) but i will make an effort because there’s nothing i dislike more than people who refuse to help carry a conversation. if you’re the kind of person that regularly gives three word replies after i send a whole paragraph, don’t bother. i hope you find a friend too, and i’m sorry if that seems harsh! i’ll be happy to even make one friend out of this post, but i want to nurture friendships with people that i can genuinely connect with. i love people who rant a lot and never know how to shut up, so please talk my ear off and don’t be alarmed if i go quiet. i’m recharging. think of me as your local neighbourhood (and slightly broken) baymax.

i said i was going to keep this short, but sometimes i don’t know how to shut up either, i guess. tell me about one good thing that happened to you today!