So recently I have been on a spree of socializing and making new friends. I made a couple of friends.  But here's the problem.  The friends that I made last year are kinda bored and don't respond that much anymore. People are only interested in the novelty factor after which pretty much they ignore you or get too used to you  and don't care to respond anymore. They simply move on. Or their conversations are not as exciting as they once used to be.  Now I constantly make new friends as some keep dropping out. Most friendships are shallow, some start petty drama so I have to cut them out, some move away to another city and forget you after that, in a nutshell nobody sticks around for too long.  It becomes an exhausting process to keep making new ones when old ones slowly begin to dwindle and fade away.  I am beginning to wonder if it's even worth it to invest in friends or socializing because it's too draining and overwhelming to begin with, to invest time and energy, trust and effort into people, only for them to turn their backs on you when they don't need you anymore or because they got greener pastures??  Very few, I mean extremely few people stick around and even these forget you with the passage of time.  Now I'm a strong introvert so I can hardly get a 100 friends the way extroverts do. I barely get along and I don't do small talk. I don't like shallow stuff.  I can have very few friends who are extremely trustworthy and highly compatible with me, but this is already so hard and after overcoming all these challenges and putting a mega ton effort into building that friendship and then see it vanish into thin air a few months later is very disheartening to say the least.  I'm pretty much drained of my emotional and trust fuel.  I can't keep doing this forever.  Any alternative to this problem?  Or is this a never ending process and I have to keep slogging through to the end to find those few precious gems that will stick around?    Looking for true trustworthy friends is almost like looking for a diamond in a mine.  Is it even worth all the trouble and time?  (I'm not a shallow person, so please don't advice me to start small talk, because I can't change my persona or base character. I am born the way I'm born and that won't change)  Please give advice bearing my personality in mind. That is tailored to people like me.  ??