This is a bit silly, but how do you make those "show-up" friends? Like energy-aligned friends.

I have a couple of friends from middle school/high school that are my life long friends, basically sisters. But most of them moved out of state or they now have kids and are in their own world, rightfully so.

I want to form new friendships, with people who have the same energy. Like for instance, I saw a video of a girl who showed up to her best friends marathon just to cheer her on. Or those CONT'D

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this seems sort of age dependent. people typically shift their focus to their spouses and kids by a certain age so it becomes difficult to do spontaneous adventures/plans and be “down for whatever” comparative to people in their young 20’s. in my experience over time it becomes more “lets plan something out in x amount of days or weeks”. granted, if you find people who don’t have those types of marriage/family obligations then I’m sure its possible to find but just dwindles over time

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Are you only seeking child free friends?

friendships where they know you're down, so they go out of their way to get you to come out with them and have a good time. The ones who will show up with you to a protest or who are down to go on some crazy spontaneous adventure with you.

Have kids.

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