Long story short, I was an emotional wreck between the ages of 16 and 23, and really lost a lot of friends and pushed people away. I still have friends, but many of them have moved away from where I live, and I now have a wonderful fiance, a child, etc.
I feel extremely isolated and actually just ran into someone at my job (local store) from my past and it totally threw me into a spiral thinking about how I’ve screwed up so many relationships lately.
Has anyone felt the same? Started from scratch and tried to make some new friends? Ugh.
I’m glad I have my little family but yikes.
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People restart their social lives all the time. They have to. Since friends come and go, they have to make new ones throughout their lives.
I think that age is perfectly fine! Many people will not remember what you did back then and will actually be pleased to see you changed. There is never a age where it is too late to restart your social life.