In my 2022 new year resolutions I made one of my goals to be more involved in plant groups and try to make some friends.

It’s been fun but also hard? I’m not trying to compete with others but sometimes I feel like with my intended smaller collection I can only take so many photos at different angles of my plants before it gets repetitive and while I can talk about them forever not everyone else will want too….

I definitely don’t have exotic or rare plants and so I find myself sitting on the sidelines watching the interactions mainly. (I think that’s the wrong way of looking at it as social media is such a bad representation of society as a whole that I think most people are like me and find joy in their common plants and all plants at the same time.)

I’m not looking for the next hot trend or next plant to cross off on my wish list as I have other wants and hobbies that need funding, that it’s hard to be constantly present for a lack of a better word in group chats. But I’m trying to be better about my mindset and the main goal is to build friends and connections, ahaha.

Discord and Reddit have made it definitely easier to branch away from houseplants to other interests as well which is great in trying to build lasting friendships.

We’ll see how I progress over the next few months, ahaha. I could see myself not getting far as my sister is expecting her first kiddo in March and during the warmer months I’m hoping to go on a big (to me) 5 year anniversary vacation and right after that Mr. Wolf and I have to decide if we’re renewing our lease or not, or even moving to another state…. So it’s still a goal for me but I’m not going to be upset if I don’t make big progress – I want connections and friendship to be organic, ahaha. (While editing this blog post I wanted to say we made our decision on where to currently live and it’s penciled in).

Making friends as an adult is harder than I thought – and Covid-19 definitely didn’t help – but that’s why social media exist, ahaha  

We’ll see how it goes….side note, my schlumbergera truncata is blooming and throwing out new growth and it’s so adorable. I wasn’t a fan of it when I first was given it but it’s growing on me.