Looking for advice: friendship

[IndigoSalvia]

Thanks for bringing this up, and sharing your experiences.

I am an introvert as well, and have gone through friendship 'droughts'. I usually have a few close friends but sometimes I forget to maintain relationships well because I'm content being alone. And then I wonder: where is everybody?

I second Q's ideas (above) about meeting people. Find something you enjoy doing or are interested in doing, and do social activities with others who have these similar interests. 

Are you comfortable with:

• Strike up friendly conversations with random people standing in line, etc. 
  
• Offer to help someone. 
  
• Smile at passers-by. 
  

While this may not make a long-term friend (although it could), it could bring one's energies to friendliness, openness, etc. And I think of these as "light" social activities. 

(What if there were an introvert club of some sort? Those introverts who were feeling uncomfortable could put out a "need social contact" plea and another introvert could respond if up to it. They'd fill one another's "social" tanks.) 

This situation may well be a catalyst, an invitation to explore what is arising within and about you.