I’ve always considered my life to be pretty shameful. My point was that some people aren’t able to make or preserve friendships, so your advice doesn’t apply. I’m always glad to give someone the opportunity to pretend they’re better than someone else, so it’s okay.

Also, you completely ignored my criticism of your advice, which is that if he put forth less effort, then he’d be even more isolated. That’s been my experience when I actually cared about befriending other people. If I tried to just take it easy and not “try so hard” then all that would happen is that no one would interact with me.

Also, I think I’d rather have my social life than your social life. From what I recall, you seem to complain a lot about all the heartache it apparently brings you.