History of Friendships

My last entry and some of the replies to it made me start to take a walk down memory lane and think about my past friendships and how I was when I was younger. Sometimes I think I always was as quiet as I am now, but really when I think about it I was actually the opposite. I used to be, from until maybe I was 6 or 7, quite the little chatterbox. So much so that people were constantly telling me to shut up. Okay, perhaps most of them weren't quite that harsh. But I did get told to "be quiet" a lot or the "OMG is she still talking" looks. I used to hang out with some of my cousins when we lived in New York when I was a kid and they were always annoyed by me. It's funny because when I go up for Thanksgiving to see my family, those same cousins marvel at how different I am. Now they want me to talk. I guess the difference now is that when you're younger you don't really have that filter that makes you analyze everything you say or worry about how you sound. But as I got older that filter went into overdrive.

( Memory Lane of Friendships Past )

So do you think that's odd - my pattern of one or two friends? Or is that normal and having big groups of friends what's unusual. Maybe neither is unusual and some people have a huge posse and others have that one best friend.