Do you choose your friends or do your friends choose you?

[Jiro]

I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND CHRISTMAS

[Jiro]

If the question is more: are you friends with people you don't like? Then, no. Why would I waste time on people who I don't enjoy?

It builds off of what you said at the beginning of your post: you get thrown together with people. Occasionally you don't have the choice on whether or not to spend time with people you don't necessarily like. It's unfortunate though! I'm just glad that school seems to have been the end of this situation for me; I can choose my own friends now.

[Parker]

I'm close to maybe 4 people who I trust and know me very well. The one I'm open with most I know online. The others are a group of friends who kinda come and go. I like them, we hang out, but we don't need each other. I'm fairly picky about who I hang out with, I guess I'd say I choose my friends.

I tend to treat my closest friends worse than acquaintances and buddies, because they know how much of a dick I am.

[Jinx]

If the question is more: are you friends with people you don't like? Then, no. Why would I waste time on people who I don't enjoy?

It builds off of what you said at the beginning of your post: you get thrown together with people. Occasionally you don't have the choice on whether or not to spend time with people you don't necessarily like. It's unfortunate though! I'm just glad that school seems to have been the end of this situation for me; I can choose my own friends now.

You know, you have a point there. I didn't think of that.

However, I don't consider people I don't like my friends.

[Araciel]

Fr-iends?

[Tigmafuzz]

Fr-iends?

(SPOILER)

[Shlup]

I think that it went both ways when I was younger. Since reaching adulthood, though, I haven't really been interested in making new friends very often.

[Loony BoB]

When the right person meets the right person, it's not a choice, man. These things just happen.

[Shorty]

I try to be friendly with everyone I meet, but I defnitely choose who I want to surround myself with.

[Sephex]

It just kind of happens. There is no real official moment where I go, "Ok. We are friends now." You hang out with someone and it clicks.

[Iceglow]

I make friends relatively easily. I don't however tend to make firm friends as easily. Generally speaking I have multiple tiers of friendship. I don't let everyone know all the same things about me or my life.

[Denmark]

I've found the best way to make friends is to just let other people talk about themselves and then you can remain mostly an enigma. It's great, it's like I have to do no work and I still get to do fun stuff with people.

[krissy]

in the span of a month i went through barely knowing a guy to dancing/feeling/kissing him up and now he's leaving and i'm
but i usually use my other friends as filters for new friends

[Miriel]

I used to be really surprised by how many people went out of their way to be friends with me, with little to no effort on my part. The interesting part about this is that I now have a lot of friends who kinda chose me, but who are wildly different from me. People I might not have sought out if I was doing all the decision making.

I'm not super proactive about going out and making friends, but very receptive to other people's friendly gestures. It all amounts to the fact that I am pretty lazy.

[Night Fury]

I'm really quiet and shy so I find it hard to make friends, and people tend to think I'm stuck up a lot, but when I do open up to people I make a really loyal friend.

People at work tend to be a lot nicer to me than people I go to uni with, I think it's because at work I have people of different ages, and I find the younger ones like me a lot because I sort of mother them a bit xD