friendships

Jamaica
July 15, 2009 12:32pm CST
does not having alot of friends imply that youre selfish? many people prefer to be by themselves, to read, think,or even dream. does that indicate selfishness?
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@Dorrdavy (275)
• Jamaica
15 Jul 09
i certainly don't think so, there are times when i just need to be by my self, some persons just don't have the world of friends but they happen to be very nice people.
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@surfermac (465)
• India
15 Jul 09
nope i dont think so coz selfish is a lot different from having friends even if you are too shy you cant make friends and there are people who are selfish and make friends to make their thing to happen
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@jsmith12 (438)
• Canada
19 Jul 09
No, because there could be any number of reasons for having few friends. There are a number of phycological conditions that make a person uneasy around others. There could be mental or physical conditions. Or medical ones. A person needs to be judged by how they act, not how many friends they do, or don't have.
@biman_s (1060)
• India
16 Jul 09
Not having a lot of friends does not mean that the person is selfish. It may be because he has not many people like him. If you meet someone who is like you then pretty soon you might become friends. I had a lot of friends but recently I have lost about 10 of them because they all betrayed me. They were just friends with me because I could help them with their studies and other things. But when I learned that I asked them about it. They all turned against me. Now I don't talk to them. They were selfish. Sometimes such situations make us choose friends carefully. I now talk to people very carefully. I don't really trust anyone.
@julbau18 (273)
• Philippines
17 Jul 09
Having few friends doenst mean selfishness. Maybe I can them as looner. It's okay to have few freinds as long as that person knows to appreciate others even if he/she is a looner. There is nothing wrong if you become a looner as long as that person is happy on whatever he/she is doing in his/her life.
• United States
21 Jul 09
Having only a few friends does not mean that one is selfish, I myself have only a small handful of friends if even that. I have three friends in real-life that I've known for awhile now and consider them true friends. I'd rather have a few true friends than possibly having a lot of friends who might not even be real ones, since some people do tend to use others. I love to read and its difficult to read when a friend is around, because it feels like I'm ignoring them and its not always easy to think about everything I'd like to think about with a friend around, though I can still think with my friend around we do tend to talk a bit unless we're watching a movie or something. Everyone needs alone time and the more friends they have that want to do stuff all the time the less alone time one has... and factor in school and/or work it leaves very little time for that alone time for relaxation.
@kevchua (1004)
• Malaysia
16 Jul 09
Definitely not. It is good to have many friends. The more the merrier. We need to have a wide social to share our experiences and to take part in healthful activities with them. It makes us more sane than being all alone at home talking to the computer or a stranger whom we have never seen in our life! People who prefer to be alone are not selfish either. It's just that they are introverts, one of the personality traits of humans. Not everyone is an extrovert. For introverts, they'd rather keep things to themselves (not because they're selfist); it's just that they prefer to wait for others to approach them first, then only you could see them revealing their true colours.