<human>: I had a particularly lonely day today and realized that every time I've hung out with someone in the last year, I was the one who initiated it. The two exceptions are my boyfriend and one best friend. My boyfriend just started a new job and works a lot, and my best friend lives 2 hours away so I haven't seen much of either of them lately.

I was talking to my mom about this, and what she essentially told me is that "Most times you have to initiate things otherwise you'll never start a friendship, you have to put in the effort to start."

While I understand what she means, it'd be nice if someone tried setting something up with me, not always the other way around. It's gotten to the point where I feel like these people don't actually want anything to do with me. 

I guess what I want to know is if it's normal for one person to set up times to hang out, or if there should be more give and take when trying to pursue a friendship with someone.

As a side note: I'm talking about a few people that I was friends with from work and college, but we never hung out with outside of those times.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: Is it weird for me to expect someone to initiate contact with me sometimes? Or should I always be the one starting up conversations and times to hang out?