You probably think that its easier to make friends with people the same age as you. Or the same race Probably in most cases, your friends are from the same social background, live in the same town and even have a similar lifestyle and job. But if you’re living like this, you’re missing out on making new connections.
by keeping the same group of friends, you’re cutting yourself off from a range of people who have the ability to introduce you to new experiences, activities and lifestyles. A whole new world will open up once you start letting your guard down and embrace all types of people.
The funny thing is when we’re children we have the ability to form friendships with all kinds of people – it happens so much that no-one even questions it. Children don’t see race because it’s not interesting them except in a very superficial way.
Yet when we’re adults we decide to shut out anyone who we feel is too different for fear that we will have nothing in common with people who don’t match our identity. And it goes for personality differences too. Even when someone has a mild disagreement, they think it’s enough to not want to know that person. It needs to change. We can’t have a situation where people (women are the worst) say things like ‘I can’t talk to him, he’s weird.’ Or, ‘he makes me feel uncomfortable’ without mentioning anything about the offending behavior that makes them ‘uncomfortable’.
It’s enough. If we’re not careful, we’ll have a situation where we only know people who match our race, beliefs, background and status. And no-one wants to live in an echo chamber.
I made a video on this subject. You may watch it here:
Watch this and Chill 
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