So here I find myself, at thirty, alone and single and with no friends and only my family for support. Bring on my midlife crisis. It's not like I'm a horrible person that people avoid like the plague. I just seemed to have accidentally skipped that part of my life in which you acquire the necessary skills to make and keep new friends.
You see growing up I only ever had one friend, he was my best friend, we did everything together and it was it was all I needed. He was cool, suave and confident, all the things I wasn't. He was just simply, amazing. Unfortunately my long term girlfriend thought so too.
On my thirtieth birthday, at a meal he had invited me to, it came to light that they had been seeing each other.
Bastards.
It wasn't the best meal I'd ever had, in fact the night kind of went to pot after that, and so did I.
Broken wouldn't have been the word I would have used but it seemed to be the only one that fit. I was a mess, I didn't give a crap about loosing my girlfriend, what upset me more was loosing my best friend, my only friend. It took a while for it to sink in but I eventually realized I was now an official 'billy no mates'.
My Life was going to be filled with nothing but loneliness and depression unless I do something about it.
So I have resolved to spend time making new friends.
But the question is, how do you make friends at thirty?