Last Updated on December 9, 2024 by Surender Kumar
Friendships can fade over time, which is why you need to put in the work to keep up with your best friends, so that you never lose touch with the people that mean the most to you in the world.
Fortunately, there are plenty of ways that you could spend a little more time with your friends.
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Plan a Day Out Every Now and Then
Ultimately, the most important element of any friendship is time. Time spent with one another is the key to maintaining the connection you feel to one another and keeping the common ground beneath you strong.
One of the best ways to make sure you are spending as much time with one another as is reasonable is to plan days out with each other.
There are plenty of options for what you could do on these shared days, all you need is to start the planning process.
- What to Do: Go hiking, biking, camping, or even a simple picnic in a local park.
- How It Helps: Being in nature refreshes the mind and offers a chance to disconnect from technology, focusing entirely on meaningful conversations and shared experiences.
Organize a Themed Game Night
- What to Do: Set up a game night with board games, card games, or video games. Add a theme, like “retro games” or “trivia night.”
- How It Helps: Game nights encourage friendly competition, teamwork, and lots of laughs, making them a great way to create shared memories and unwind together.
Get Invested in Experiences
There is nothing quite like a shared experience to really connect you and your friends. So many stories and conversations between close friends start with “Hey do you remember that time…” but so many people never think to suggest those kinds of experiences to their friends.
There are a great many things you and your friends could do together, if you take the time to make a plan.
Get Into an Escape Room
An escape room is a brilliant option. Locked into a complex series of puzzles where your only option is to work with one another to figure out how to escape.
These can be an incredible shared experience and are actually pretty affordable and easy to engage with. Depending on your experience and preference, you can choose from different escape room difficulty levels to ensure the challenge is both fun and rewarding. Most escape rooms only take an hour to complete which means you and your friends can fit one in, even with a busy schedule.
Plus, escape rooms can play with some interesting concepts, such as a VR Escape Room.
Take a Class Together
- What to Do: Enroll in a cooking, pottery, or dance class as a group.
- How It Helps: Learning a new skill together fosters collaboration and gives everyone something to work on collectively, creating a stronger bond through mutual accomplishment.
Take Up a Project Together
Finally, one of the best ways to start spending a whole lot more time with someone is to start up a project together. When you are working toward a common goal, people start communicating a lot more and that makes way for communications outside of your project.
Fortunately, there are a great many projects that you could start with someone you like.
Make Something Silly
Even if you don’t necessarily have any burning passions that you really want to get into with one another, there are plenty of projects you could start together to keep in touch.
From a YouTube channel to making a game, there are no bad ideas when what you are going for is a way to stay in touch.
Do Your Best to Create Something Great
Alternatively, if there is something you really, genuinely want to do and you feel comfortable sharing that with someone else, this could be a great way to strengthen your bonds with your best friends.
Volunteer for a Cause
- What to Do: Join a community cleanup, food bank, or animal shelter activity.
- How It Helps: Volunteering promotes teamwork and provides a sense of fulfillment, as you and your friends contribute to a cause larger than yourselves.
Working together on something you are passionate about allows you to see and feel that vivacity in each other, which can be an incredible thing to share.
Create a Monthly Friends’ Dinner
- What to Do: Rotate hosting a dinner party or trying a new restaurant each month.
- How It Helps: Regular meetups ensure consistent interaction and create a shared tradition to look forward to. It also allows you to explore diverse cuisines or showcase your cooking skills.
Each idea nurtures different aspects of friendship, from shared laughter to accomplishing goals together, deepening your connections in fun and meaningful ways.
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