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On Another Note,

How to make friends as an introvert

On Another Note,

Raven Elyse

Ravenelysetv, Raven Elyse, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Education, Personal Journals, Business

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I'm an introvert and mostly a home-body. As a kid, everyone said I was shy. I was not popular at school and when I became unexpectedly pregnant at a relatively young age, I felt like a bit of an outcast. So how did I create the healthy and vibrant community of friends I have now?

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Raven. Fun fact from Brianna Cooper on Instagram, Australia is wider than the moon, meaning that the distance from east to west

0:25.6

of Australia is more than the diameter of the moon.

0:32.4

On another notes, today we're going to be talking about friendships. Friends. How many of us have them

0:41.5

friends? Ones we can depend on. Let's be friends. What y'all know about that? Y'all don't

0:48.1

know nothing about that. I get a lot of questions about friendship in general. More specifically,

0:53.0

I think the number one question is how did I come

0:58.6

to have the beautiful friend circle that I have now? How did I go about making these friends? How do I

1:05.7

maintain the friendships? Do I have any struggles within the friendships that maybe y'all don't know about?

1:12.5

Just kind of everything revolving around that. And I think a lot of it comes from just the fact that

1:18.9

it's hard to make friends as an adult. You know what I mean? I'm 31 years old. I feel like a lot of

1:24.4

you guys listening to this are around my age. And I can understand how, yeah, it's just hard to make friends.

1:31.9

Navigating friendships in general at this age is just interesting for a lot of reasons.

1:36.8

And I think because I talk so fondly of my current friend circle,

1:43.5

maybe it's seen as something that's like admirable and aspirational, inspirational.

1:49.0

And maybe y'all think that I have like cracked the code on adult friendships,

1:57.0

not only making new friends later in life, but also just like maintaining the friendships

2:02.2

through it all, through motherhood and all different things.

2:06.2

I'll say yes, for starters, yes, I am happy with where I'm at when it comes to friendships

2:14.1

and like my social, I guess you would call it kind of my social life in that sense.

2:19.4

I am very thankful for my friend circle. I feel like I have come a long way in a sense because

2:28.2

I definitely did not always have the friendship circle that I have now. So in one way, I kind of do want to say like, yeah, like, I do think I have an aspirational

2:41.7

friendship circle.

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