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Making Friends

This is a topic that has been showing up among many different friends over the past few weeks, and I thought I'd write up a post reflecting on it. The topic is: making friends. I realised something about making friends a long time ago, while in high school. actually. It is this: our friends do not have to be people with whom we have much in common. I had a fantastic group of friends in high school. We are all still friends today, over 12 years later. Some of us had a lot in common: we went to grade school together, we were in band, choir, or drama in high school, or we had other classes together. Some of us had absolutely nothing in common other than a mutual friend. I have one great friend who became a friend solely because I sat next to him in freshman year biology and we had to dissect a fetal pig together. Later on in my life, I began making friends with people at my young single adult congregation in college. By no means an all-inclusive list, here's just a snapshot o