It's hard but it is possible. I'm really introverted, so I have to step way outside my comfort zone. I use meetup.com regularly. I'm lucky I live in a big city so there a gazillion different groups. I've joined some that are purely social, and they organize things like dinners or lunches out, games nights, bingo, kareoke etc., I found a bookclub that I go to monthly, a bowling group that meets monthly, and just recently a meditation group. It's great because everyone is there for the event, or the food, is looking to make friends so is friendly and it's absolutely not a dating site unless you join one of the dating groups. After you go to a few events you get to see the same people, and get to know them a bit, and then you can start suggesting meeting for coffee people you think you'd like to get to know a bit better.

Good luck.

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