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@sisyphus

I truly hope you have thought long and well on your statement, "I am awkward around people," as the reason for not bothering to have more than your current two friends. I say this out of my extensive interest in and around the subject of 'friends,'

So this is how I look at your statement: One can say I am awkward around babies, around noisy crowds, even funerals and pets and tattooed heavily, or with Down Syndrome++ ... and I will still have no problem understanding and agreeing with that statement of yours.

The reason I feel unease with your words is simply because depending upon one or two close friends to fill up our need for friends in our current society is too inadequate. I think the consensus is five close friends whom one could call for help whenever that need arises.

So my hope is that you did dig deeper when you say 'because I feel awkward.' It's the quality of the reasons behind that I find missing and therefore it troubles me because you might say later : But why did I not flesh out What did 'feeling awkward' mean when I already Have Two (people) friends, whom I Enjoy spending time with?

In the end it's Your life and You have to be fully satisfied with Your decisions, as we all need to, to have a practical understanding of how one's life can be measured as 'good enough/not bad' a measure I set for my life knowing well the constraints I must live it within.
I Wish u Well,

As for myself, I'd give away happily ten hours each week for five friends. Yes, I work for developing friendships many hours each day

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I have a diagnosis of PTSD due to child abuse. I have been made to feel that I am inadequate as a person, therefore I am awkward. I have had counselling. But I didn't leave home until I finally had the courage to do so in my middle 20's. Still, though, I feel different and other. I am better when I get to know people on a one on one basis. So at this time I only have two friends. I have a couple of other friends who are further away. We still keep in touch via email and phone, but that is my life. I do not measure my life. I am at the end now. So it is what it is.