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What Do You Do When No One Wants To Be Your Friend

Riku Arikiri
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15 min readJul 9, 2020

We have always been susceptible to what society demands of us to fit a specific stereotype. Some of the times, we are unsuccessful to fully adapt to the environment we are placed in. We find it hard to connect to others and moreover ourselves as well. This conflict increases the distastefulness towards others which is directly shown in our behaviors. It surrounds and follows us like a sad cloud that pushes people away whenever we try to connect with someone or perhaps try to befriend someone.

Life seems to become an endless circle of suffering and we feel like we are the only ones there. It causes us to feel ill towards social anxiety and depression as we feel we are not enough. It is perhaps something that is through the mindset we adopt, that we neither love ourself nor are we able to love another. We can’t foster feelings of nurturing for ourselves and thus this attitude seems to push others away from us as well.

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Riku Arikiri
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I am going to sound a bit negative, but I read a lot of these types of articles, and after 30 years of working in Software it never fails to amaze me that these generalized, "rational", "pragmatic" solutions still get spoken off as the great panacea.

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