Birds of a Feather, Flock This Way

Whatever happened to those days when you were a kid and you saw another kid then decided instantly, this kid is my friend. The children aren’t worried about rejection or betrayal. They just see someone who’s little like them and a friendship is formed. The older I get I noticed the more difficult it is to make good friends. Good friends are worth millions and most of my friends I have known for at least ten years now. The concept of “no new friends” isn’t farfetched but these days it happens to us without even trying. The minute someone attempts to bridge that gap we automatically are suspicious of them and start thinking things such as, “They must have a motive!”, “Why do they want to get closer to me?”, or “Who is this weirdo?”. Have we become so jaded by the First 48 or constant barrage of social media that we have stopped meeting people in real life?

Personally I am open to making new friends but as they say birds of a feather flock together and I haven’t seen any birds like me. All of my friendships that have lasted are with those who flock in the same beat as I do. We are all relatively attractive, intelligent, classy, independent, loyal, and have a sense of morals/decorum. I'm not tooting our horns and we are all different but we all possess those same traits. None of us are easily intimidated, we don’t feel the need to compete with each other, we are down to earth, and have pretty chill moods. So when I have a new bird friend I try to hang out with, often the friendships end up fizzling out. My only guess is that the new bird isn’t a bird like me and we can have lunch and stuff but we won’t flock together.

Another problem is I have become really picky about who I choose to call a friend. If I have bad feelings about someone, well now I listen to them. I’ve learned to always follow your intuition! You unconsciously pick up on more things when you meet someone than you are aware. Something about the vibes they give off, their body language, their mannerisms, or their personalities will leave you with a gut instinct feeling of them. Whenever I didn’t listen and tried to be nice about it, it always ended up burning me in the long run. The girl would be insecure to the point of duplicity, needy to the point of dependence upon me, or always one to create drama. So I told the universe and put it out there that I would like to find and meet these like-minded people. I'm going to continue to put these positives thoughts out there and one day I will come across more birds of a feather.