How do be socially satisfied?

[CrunchyPancakes]

About a year ago I posted saying I don't have enough local friends. I was feeling miserable and hopeless about it.

Now I've in two groups of friends and have made another 3 individual friends.

But I still don't feel like I've got enough friends to fill my weekends.

I'm trying to understand is this because I had no idea how many friends people actually have and my expectation was a bit off for how many friends would make me feel socially satisfied. Or is it because people spend most of their time with family and only really see friends maybe once a week? Or do people have a really tight nit set of friends so they only see them every weekend.

I live alone now, and I would say I try to generally arrange one "thing" per weekend day. I do definitely still want and need to see people but that doesn't have to be all the time, but if I start getting too stuck in my own brain then I end up feeling like I need to make more and more plans until eventually I'm just going from one to another which (for me) isn't actually as enjoyable as when I have some down time.

@Augend23 I totally get this. I don't live alone, but on the odd occasion that DH is away, I am also prone to getting too stuck in my own brain, having a panic and then over-booking myself, then not enjoying the results and wishing I'd got some time to myself!