Does Wanting to Meet New People Make a Person Narcissistic?
In Tokyo's social meetups, attendees frequently ask each other about their respective personal hobbies. Trying to come up with something that is not too cliched ("I like to travel around the world!") the author usually tell people that he enjoys going to such social events and speaking with complete strangers. In fact, he would add, he enjoys speaking to strangers so much that he'd rather devote more time meeting new people out of the blue that go through the troubles of communicating and setting up meetups with his own long-time acquaintances.