Finding like minded people

I agree with you that even if anyone doesn't have the same interests as me I can still be friends with that person. But honestly speaking when the interests differ still yes, friendship can be there. But it will be a bit time consuming. On the other hand two people who are strangers and start sharing their voices and opinions and if they come on the same wavelength, it will be faster and easier for them to become friends.

@LindaOHio Thanks and welcome

@abhi_bangal Yes, I totally agree with you.

You are talking about an instant connection being very rare? I want totally deby it. But I have two such close friends with whom I connected so fast that it was a bit surprising. And it's not like we became friends just for the sake of it. Our friendship has been now more than 25 years old. And when will look back and remember those few starting days even we are surprised to see how fast things happened between both of us. And in this 2+ decades, nothing has changed between us. The closeness, the care for each other has been all the same. Actually it has been growing because we all have seen good and bad phases in this 25 years. So the need to have close friends is what we have understood. I agree with your last sentence. That's the gist of what you are trying to explain, and I totally support it. There should be time for each of us to find good people. They all exist. It's just that you have to do a search. And if this happens from the other side as well, well nothing can beat that.

@abhi_bangal you are lucky to have made such good connections so quickly and to keep them. I have taken an instant dislike to certain people that instinct has always been correct! With most people, I take them as I find them. I have been quite surprised, though, to have made some friends quite quickly when I moved jobs.

@pumpkinjam My good old friend, who is now no more, always used to say, we are lucky to have a close circle of blossom friends. (We had a huge group of friends and we were always the highlight in our college days.) I didn't understand the meaning that time. Sadly, it's late, now that I know. So, I always try to treasure friends - all old and new. But yes, there is a flip side to this thing - finding closed connections and keeping them. In the course of time, only those friends remained in touch who were really involved and attached to each other. But MyLot has given me some new friends. And I'm trying to make sure the friendship stays in the real sense. It's possible to happen that when you move jobs, you may not go along with new people immediately. But I'm sure you have a handful of them that you got after moving jobs. And believe me mate, these friends never leave us.

Same here. I specially like to make friends here. And coincidentally I've a few of them. Some of them are my countrymates, and some of them are from overseas. But I haven't yet met anyone in person. But yes, when it comes to online communication, we are quite good at that.

There are tons of things that I will agree with you in this reply in particular. As I said in the above response, it is not necessary that you should meet in person or the other person should be in your area, or should be your countrymate. It doesn't matter even if the people come have foreign origins. As long as we all share common things and common interests it becomes comparatively easier to bond with each other. And when there are common interests, it's easy to be on the same wavelength and this is where the mentality matches. I will not be exaggerating when I say I have a few such friends, real friends, I mean whom I have been living with for a few years now. But we have differences over certain things, our thought process do not match, we have our own opinions regarding what's going on around its but still we are blossom friends.