{"id":309,"date":"2014-09-15T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixingout.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-09-15T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:40","slug":"making-friends-interest-self-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/making-friends-interest-self-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Friends, In The Interest of Self Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now and again we like to strap on our thinking caps here at MixingOut. And without getting too deep about the whole thing, there\u2019s definitely an element of meeting new people and making friends that serves us in good stead, philosophically speaking. We\u2019re \u2018social animals\u2019 and hardwired to seek out human companionship. Friendships have benefited us from the moment we first learned to walk upright and step outside of our caves.<\/p>\n

But what about today? It\u2019s not as if we\u2019ve got giant wooly mammoths and sabre toothed tigers to contend with nowadays. Self preservation has shifted from survival to spiritual harmony. And if magazines, television and movies have taught us anything (because that\u2019s pretty much where our researchers get all their information from) here\u2019s precisely what we mean:<\/p>\n

Friends will give you new and exciting experiences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you ever see The Hangover? How about The Goonies? All the great adventures begin with one thing: friendship. Why, even The Lord of The Rings begins with a gang of tiny buddies drinking in a tavern. You might not end up scaling the mountains of Mordor, but having an active social life is likely to give you new and exciting experiences.<\/p>\n

Friends will help you overcome heartbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s fewer things more painful than a broken heart this day and age. Thankfully our friends are there to pick us up when we\u2019re at our lowest. Read any copy of Cosmopolitan or catch any episode of any US sitcom ever. Failing that, watch Swingers, perhaps the funniest movie about friendship and heartache.<\/p>\n

Friends will help you succeed at work<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not talking about that hilarious Pepsi advert where the lead\u2019s friends help him rig a job interview so that he gets the job. Provided your mates aren\u2019t keeping you out till all hours, having a fulfilling social life can make you happier and more productive at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now and again we like to strap on our thinking caps here at MixingOut. And without getting too deep about the whole thing, there\u2019s definitely an element of meeting new people and making friends that serves us in good stead, philosophically speaking. We\u2019re \u2018social animals\u2019 and hardwired to seek out human companionship. Friendships have benefited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,65,77],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-making-friends","tag-new-friends","tag-self-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}