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How to Keep Friends and Combat Entropy

How to Keep Friends and Combat Entropy

The key to building and strengthening friendships as an adult

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Mar 12, 2025
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Everyone complains about how it’s impossible to make friends as an adult, and that the friendships they do have seem to drift apart over the years. This is especially common when friends from school move away from each other after graduating, but it even happens with friendships in the same city. People have a nostalgic view of school as this isolated “before time” where they were magically able to make friends and have a thriving social life. What they don’t realize is that school is the social tutorial island, and one must take those lessons and apply them to adulthood.

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