Typical time pulling friendships apart/people move away/too busy or preoccupied with their own lives stuff here. I have a few good friends whom I've been friends with for ~20+ years, and still keep in touch, so it's not all bad. Just the other day some...bad stuff happened, and I just didn't want to be alone that night, and one of my good friends drove up on a whim an hour away to keep me company, so I got a small circle, but it's good people.
Due to covid + no longer being in a relationship, I have craved social interaction more than any other time in my life, so having a smaller circle of more or less busy people who are either an hour away or out of state, bad time right now. The reason I started the fitness thread is that I just want to be outside doing stuff, and if nobody else has time, I'll make my own time for it.
To drive that point home even farther, ASSUMING NOTHING GETS IN THE WAY BECAUSE DAMNIT SOMETHING BAD WILL PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING, I'll be looking at getting some plane tickets in a month or so to visit an online friend in seattle who I met durring my trans/lgbt meltdown phase and we've kept in touch ever since. Very outside of my comfort zone to go that far solo to see someone for a week, but fuck my comfort zone, being outside of that tends to yield happy memories/experiences. I want video of me shooting an AK47, I will try and produce this on the trip assuming again nothing unexpected happens to prevent me from going. Could be the pandemic, could be me changing as a person, could be both, idk.