I don’t have a big social circle.
I don’t have a circle at all.
I have what us semi-awkward introverts lovingly call
“a triangle”
And in that triangle,
there’s me,
and then there’s my two other personalities.
Just kidding.
But I kid you not,
it’s that kind of humor right there which is exactly why my social circle be nonexistent.
But for reals, I have a triangle.
It’s me and my two ride or dies.
And sometimes I have a square or a pentagon, but I kinda max out there ‘cause fives a good number and I ain’t good at math, and also because circles are enclosing and confining and this wanna-be bad B just doesn’t like being held hostage
to commitments,
play dates,
couple dates,
GNOs,
group vacas,
and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad
group texting threads.
I don’t like pressure.
And pressure is what you can feel when you have a larger group of friends.
So I keep mine small,
and that works for me.
I’m okay having two to five ladies I can call on for anything and everything instead of seven or ten.
Because between two and five is the about the amount of people, outside my family of five, that I can handle being there for.
And that’s just me being honest,
and realistic,
and wearing my friendship-restricting known flaws because
THEY.
ARE.
COMFORTABLE.
Just like the friendships I keep.
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