I am 26, and my set of circumstances are different but I can relate. I have been making changes lifestyle recently. Namely, spending my weekend 'out' in the evening just drinking for the sake of it has kind of got boring for me, especially as you lose saturday/sunday during the day recovering.
I am finding since leaving the bar life behind somewhat that it is opening up a lot more time for myself now on the weekends, and whilst I do have a set of friends that I can chill with, kick a ball around with, play some pool, go for a bike ride, its a fairly small inner circle and its not always easy to find someone to hang out with every weekend.
The rest of my social circle is bigger but I only really know the others through the medium of drinking and going out. So once I decided that I want to get more serious about self improvement and taking better care of myself: my health, fitness, brain and appearance, and didn't want to spend weekends drinking, its like a large swathe of people I used to meet whilst drinking are no now longer people I want to meet with on a regular basis, so my social circle has become a lot tighter.
I have recently taken part in a football (soccer in the US) meet up group in London which has been good, its just dudes getting together playing some football and that's a great way to let of some steam and have fun. Outside of that, I am looking at taking language classes in Italian, and also learning to play an instrument in a group setting. So the opportunities are definitely there. Its just a question of being very patient as it takes a while to build new hobbies, meet new people, build new connections. Its not going to happen overnight but its something you have to work towards.
For me, I would like to get to the point where I am taking part in 3-4 hobbies over the weekend, like playing football, learning a musical instrument, and perhaps another group activity also. When you are not hungover the whole time you realise how much time you have over the weekends.
I am finding since leaving the bar life behind somewhat that it is opening up a lot more time for myself now on the weekends, and whilst I do have a set of friends that I can chill with, kick a ball around with, play some pool, go for a bike ride, its a fairly small inner circle and its not always easy to find someone to hang out with every weekend.
The rest of my social circle is bigger but I only really know the others through the medium of drinking and going out. So once I decided that I want to get more serious about self improvement and taking better care of myself: my health, fitness, brain and appearance, and didn't want to spend weekends drinking, its like a large swathe of people I used to meet whilst drinking are no now longer people I want to meet with on a regular basis, so my social circle has become a lot tighter.
I have recently taken part in a football (soccer in the US) meet up group in London which has been good, its just dudes getting together playing some football and that's a great way to let of some steam and have fun. Outside of that, I am looking at taking language classes in Italian, and also learning to play an instrument in a group setting. So the opportunities are definitely there. Its just a question of being very patient as it takes a while to build new hobbies, meet new people, build new connections. Its not going to happen overnight but its something you have to work towards.
For me, I would like to get to the point where I am taking part in 3-4 hobbies over the weekend, like playing football, learning a musical instrument, and perhaps another group activity also. When you are not hungover the whole time you realise how much time you have over the weekends.