Honestly, I don't really have many friends because of that. We should see to it that we have as few of them as possible. Generally speaking, closeness is good, but do not hang out too much.

Haha thirties here. I understand your point and in some cases that makes sense. BUT during that age span you metioned is also the best time to create "network" not necessarily "friendships" but some soet of human connection where you can get yourself be guided or be presented with opportunities and even learn from experiences.

Choose your company wisely. Set a standard and discipline to yourself that you can communicate to your friends like hangout only on this certain day of the month to keep yourself from spending what you earned too much.

Eventually friends and people we meet gets sifted anyway. Might as well capitalize on what your connection currently can give you

Finding true friends is not easy. Finding real friends a bit difficulty that's why it's a blessed if you have a real friends at your side but sometimes it's a distraction. I agree my friend that's why we learned how to handle and control it.

I like making friends in real life but I do not like to trust the people I met. It's just a matter of making friends without putting yourself in any danger.

I never thought it that way but your reasoning seems legit. It really depends on what our priorities are. I remember a story of a guy who worked all his life in his younger years enough to earn him an amount to buy huge land mountains of it I think and he reforested that. Just like what your grandfather did, he made sure that his future and his family's are set. Whatever distractions you think in achieving your goals are, leave them and let them go. That's practical and understandable. At the end of the day it's all about you anyway and how you want your life to be. I think most of us here in read can understand you and feel the same and do the same. Keep grinding while you still have the energy and while you still can.

Actually the age 19 to 22 is the age of our life when we meet many temporarily person, when mostly people waste their time on social media and don't focus on carrier, when mostly people fall in love and destroy the carrier.

I'm giving you a suggestion here that have a one friend in your life but make sure he's the good one and loyal to you but having a group of friends leads you to destruction my dear brother.

I'm happy to know that you aren't from those people who waste their time. Yes it's the time when you have to work hard for brighten your future.

Good luck to you but here I'm amazed to know that why your life will be totally change after a month???? What will happen to you?? Which totally change your life.

Friends in real life exists only upto age of 24, once they start getting married they only come back to you when you become 50 or 60. They come back to pass their free time. So if you get good friends who keep daily in touch , you are lucky.

Depends on the people, if you are a goal oriented people you don't need physical friends just virtual friends like us are enough to put you in place. And if you feel lonely than you should consider getting some.

It's true friends are the major distraction...lol But the truth is that we can't live without interacting with them. You grandfather made the right decision.

Friends will locate us naturally and that's base on who we are too cos if we are the working type, the kind of friend that would want to come is the working type too. We shouldn't let friends to waste our friends though, our decision should be a concern too.

A friend is that brother that God put you to choose. A friend is not the one who eats with you, enjoys with you or looks like you. A friend is something more than that. It is a person who is with you in the bad times and in the worst and perhaps cannot be with you in the good times. You know that person is there for you if you need him or her. That's not what your companions who just want to have fun do. It takes many years and many situations to know if someone is a true friend. It doesn't matter if you are introverted or extroverted to have someone who truly cares about you.

Sometimes it's not in our place to choose who our friends would be. We tend to align naturally with people who share similar goal, ambition and vision as us. I'm our journey through life , one finds the right friend who would make them complete and who would be equal to a "thousand friends" whom ofcourse you'd see as distraction .