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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all more complicated than it seems people realize.  People self select for all sorts of reasons they may or may not be aware of.  If someone is really into cooking healthy and being fit, they are likely to have more to talk about with other people with similar interests.  That's the simplified explanation.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  It depends what type of friend you mean also.  My closest circle are people that look similar to me as far as fitness and have similar interests.  These are the people we do things with in weekends and vacation with- we all eat similarly, are active, prioritize health for ourselves and our children [/quote]

Boy, that sounds dull. Always surrounded by the same types of people.

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I mean I think people generally form friend groups around interests and if your interests are appearance related or physical in some way it makes sense your friends in that activity will look similar.  My primary interests are mental (and by this I mean YA fantasy and pub trivia; it’s not like I’m trying to be pretentious here) so my friends look a wide variety of ways but all were total nerds in school.  Similarly I have a friend who’s really into Brazilian jiu jitsu (she also writes YA fantasy hence the overlap) and all her bjj friends are super fit but have a wide variety of school experiences.  So physically similar friend groups can be diverse in other ways.[/quote]

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