How To Feel Entertained And Fulfilled Without Friends?

Hi, it’s same situation with me also...I really crave to go back in time and enjoy college life again...hanging out with friends, hanging around in malls and watching movies and eating out, having crushes on cute guys...hehe..
Frankly, I did not appreciate my friends that much when I was younger..but some years down the lane. I found how tough it is when we don’t have people of our age group to confide in, to chill out with.
Actually I didn’t deliberately distance myself, it’s just that all of them moved to different cities and countries for higher studies, jobs, marriage etc. atleast once a year I could catch up..
Still, when I was working, I managed to make a few work buddies of my age group and we could have lunch together at the cafeteria, team lunches etc.
But, I had to leave my job and lost touch with them.
Then, i managed to get friends in my apartment complex, ladies of my age group and older too..could hang out and gossip with them while walking in the evening...
But, due to Covid, everyone is indoors and busy isolating themselves.
More than a year since I met anyone.

So only way to stay in touch with friends is through social platforms and chatting..
Same case with my husband, early years of marriage we used to hang out with this friends often and he was a much more easy going and fun loving guy...but since few years his friends too are busy with commitment , rarely he could meet them and he only talks on phone. He has changed a lot, isolation doesn’t suit my husband either.

After a certain age no one has much time and energy to invest in friendships..except for people who are very extroverted and have many like minded friends with kids their age and get along really well..

Don’t see pics posted by ur friends and think that it’s rosy out here in India..
Your friends who are roaming around and socialising at this time are taking a big risk at this time.

 

How to feel entertained and fulfilled? No idea.
Current Covid situation makes it tough to socialise and you need to use your hobbies, interests and career to feel fulfilled.

 

It was indeed a different and a fantastic time, the college days.... The younger me with more energy and enthusiasm for things. Now most of my friends are my children's mother....

I do miss the good old days, but somehow i am liking this too.... It is like a lioness, a lion and their 2 little cubs in their den.

Unfortunately what happens is, my wavelength does not match, and i not a very interesting person and neither do i love to go out much, so sometimes i wonder what am i really going to contribute in a friendship. I dont stay in touch and not intentionally, but I get held up.

Sometimes i wonder, what changed and how it changed....
For now this routine is good and am liking it.
But hey dear @anika987 if we were in same place, would have loved to be your friend

 

Yes, we can be happy and contended with ourselves but sometimes it gets very boring. I wish I too had few friends around to share and to have good time.
Staying in abroad, away from family nor any friends around sometime feels like living in separate world to me. (not in a depressive way but very routine and plain life)