Your bestfriend is boring...do you tell them

Canada
September 4, 2007 11:57am CST
You are like yin-n-yang. You are the more outgoing energetic one and she/he is the calmer one. Together you balance eachother out. You notice that your friend has become more quite/reserved than normal and doesn't want to do the things you two used to do. You haven't become more energetic and would like to do some fun things with your friend but they don't want to do it or they showcase some really boring tendancies. You are left wondering who this person is. You end up feeling like you have to be the one to work hard to make them have a good time. Your friend doesn't think they have changed and enjoys being around you. What do you do?
4 responses
@vinzen (1020)
• India
4 Sep 07
My quiet friend - Some friends are quiet
If you are really true freinds, then you would tell your friend very frankly what you are feeling. I believe that if you are real friends then there is nothing to hide and hold back and friendship means to share everything with each other and to be able to tell them their flaws on the face. But if you are not that good a friend and just casual friends, then you would, i guess, tend to start keeping a little away from her, so that you are not bored in her company. But if i had been in your place, i think i would have tried to find out, as to why shes become more quiet, maybe shes facing some kind of problem, maybe personal or family related, can be anything, but being a good friend i will pursue her to tell me what the problem is, and remember as shes the quiet and introvert kinds, she wont tell you on her onw, you have to keep asking and get it out from her. Once she tells you the reason for her worry and her quiteness, then you should try and help her out and make her feel better, and if you are able to help her, she would feel better, lighter and become just as what she was before. I am sure there must be a reason for her such kind of sudden change on behavioour, just reach out, hold her hand and ask her, be with her, these are passing phases of life and testing time for your friendship too, to see how strong your friendship is.
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• Canada
11 Sep 07
I know the reasons for her being so quite. One of those reasons is her religous beliefs which I am not against what-so-ever. I talk to her about a lot things and the things that are bothering her but these are things that she is going to have to work out herself. I think it the quarter life crisis. I'm kind of working my way through mine. We all handle things differently. Thanks for your opinion Vinzen.
@vinzen (1020)
• India
13 Sep 07
Yes you are right, we all have our share of problemns and worries and need to find our solutions ourselevs, guess you would have to be patient with her and give her some time. Thanks for your reply, have a nice day:)
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@vinzen (1020)
• India
9 Oct 07
Thanks for marking this as the best response, i appreciate that. Have a nice day :)
@dimaks (786)
• Japan
13 Sep 07
i do not usually tell them straight to the face. i try to find ways to tell them in some other ways, indirectly. i avoid putting them into shame as much as possible.
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• Canada
13 Sep 07
Good point dimaks. The last thing I want to do is hurt their feelings.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
5 Sep 07
I don't know. I am usually pretty quiet, and my friends are too. I think too, that as we have gotten older, we have less adventures and we've gone to less parties. I think you shouldn't work hard to make the other person have a good time. I don't with my friends, and they don't with me, and we all still enjoy spending time together.
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• Canada
11 Sep 07
I do agree that when you get older you have less adventures and go to less parties. If your and your friends are the same then that is a differnt stroy. Life takes you on new adventures and you have a life outside of your relationships with your friends. She has a hard time accepting that so when I try to do something that I think will be fun for the both of us it's not...for her. And then I get miserable cause I'm trying to do something for the both of us which isn't working. Her energy is so different now. Almost like night and day. I'm talking to someone who looks like my friend but isn't quite the person I remember.
• Indonesia
5 Sep 07
Hi Simoneetah, I used to be placed at the same situation.I'm the calmer one. When that happened she yelled at me and left.I don't know whether your friend is an introvert one but I am. I usually get calmer than normal when something bad happen to me and I don't want to talk about it, not even to my best friend.It's not that I don't want to share my burden, it just hard for people like me to let it out.Or there might be something you did that she/he didn't like. I think both of you need to talk about it, coz' that what we did when this situation came in front of us. Have a great day
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• Canada
11 Sep 07
Thanks for your opinion. We do talk about what her issues are. What we haven't talked about is how it is bothering me. She is not an introvert and talks when she needs to let things out. I know if I say what I am feeling it will hurt her feelings. I've never been the one to hurt anyones feelings so I keep a lot of things to myself. I may have flirted with telling her in the past but she didn't see where she has changed so I left it alone.