Social lives are important for maintaining your health and happiness. Humans are social creatures that need social interaction to avoid depression and loneliness. As a grown adult, it can sometimes feel like you’re building a social life from scratch. I struggled with this as well. That’s why during my personal journey development I decided to find health habits that changed my life. My mental health journey was not easy and I knew personal growth was a necessity to adapt. Doing things like opening up and shifting behavior allowed me to create this feeling lonely motivation.

In this video I broke down the four pillars of a social life: family, friends, acquaintances, and significant others. Each pillar needs attention in order to maintain a healthy social life. I wanted to focus on the friends pillar as I found that this one often is one folks, such as myself, struggle with. A major step I took was being better friend to others in order to attract more quality friends. This way you can ensure each pillar can support a load relative to its strength: more people in each pillar increases the strength of that pillar. Hopefully this philosophical approach of flipping the way you think about friends can help as a motivational example.