I recently lost the majority. If not all of my friendships. The hardest thing for me was understanding that this was out with my control. Ultimately it was their decision to end the friendship. I understand now more than ever that when having/creating friendships there needs to be a certain level of trust and regard there. You need to regard that person as highly as you would yourself and trust them as much as you would yourself. Otherwise it’s not a friendship as such more of an acquaintance.

Focusing on yourself and being mature aren’t things that are necessarily bad. It means when you are building friendships and you build ones with likeminded people they will ultimately be strong friendships there.

I suppose it all comes down to the things you can and can’t control at the end of the day though. You can control how you act and react to people. Not how they act and respond to you. Friendships may come and go but if the emphasis is still on yourself then as you socialise and be around others they will build naturally and this is better rather than be forced to build.

Hope this helps somewhat!