My sister came home after visiting Detroit Autoshow today with few foreign exchange students. After telling us about the cars she saw, their walk around Detroit, how warm it was inside and how freezing cold it was outside she added:
- Jessie and I talked for two hours on the way home. I am going to call her tomorrow and we will hang out.
Jessie is an exchange student from Germany. Mindy has known her almost since the beginning of the school year. However they never talked to each other before.
We all have so many potential friends around and sometimes all we need is just a little conversation to actually get the friendship going and make each other's lifes a little better. I gained few new friendships lately and as I look back I regret I haven't become friends with these people earlier.
I had a class with Dana in Winter 07. We had D'Souza's Calc 2 together. We talked a little, but never actually had time to get to know each other better. In Fall 07 we had Linear Algebra and were both Society of Physics Students secretaries, which made us a bit closer, however only after going to Florida I basically realized how much we do have in common and we finally became friends. And I have known her for a YEAR.
Zachary was in two of my classes in Fall 2007. We knew each other, however we never talked. It took one day of studying for physics and linear algebra together for me to see that he is fun and that we should be friends. Now we are :) However last semester would have been more fun, if only we talked on the first day of classes.
Anjan was in my Linear Algebra class. Once again I knew who he was, however I was always a little intimidated to talk to him. It took us an hour to make a huge pile of pancakes for breakfast in Florida and to get to know each other. One hour. And we could have been friends for over a semester now.
It is all about taking your time to get to know people around you. Don't take being shy for being stuck up. Some friendships do come naturally: you meet this special person and you feel like you have known them forever right away. However some friendships need a little push, a little force applied, if you will, to get going. Don't wait to apply this force. Talk to people, get to know them and try to see a friend in everyone you meet :)
Hope you guys don't mind I talked about you in my little journal thingy. I am really glad I got to become friends with each one of you and wish we became friends earlier:)
And sorry for getting nerdy in the end, however it was the best analogy I could think of.
We all have so many potential friends around and sometimes all we need is just a little conversation to actually get the friendship going and make each other's lifes a little better. I gained few new friendships lately and as I look back I regret I haven't become friends with these people earlier.
I had a class with Dana in Winter 07. We had D'Souza's Calc 2 together. We talked a little, but never actually had time to get to know each other better. In Fall 07 we had Linear Algebra and were both Society of Physics Students secretaries, which made us a bit closer, however only after going to Florida I basically realized how much we do have in common and we finally became friends. And I have known her for a YEAR.
Zachary was in two of my classes in Fall 2007. We knew each other, however we never talked. It took one day of studying for physics and linear algebra together for me to see that he is fun and that we should be friends. Now we are :) However last semester would have been more fun, if only we talked on the first day of classes.
Anjan was in my Linear Algebra class. Once again I knew who he was, however I was always a little intimidated to talk to him. It took us an hour to make a huge pile of pancakes for breakfast in Florida and to get to know each other. One hour. And we could have been friends for over a semester now.
It is all about taking your time to get to know people around you. Don't take being shy for being stuck up. Some friendships do come naturally: you meet this special person and you feel like you have known them forever right away. However some friendships need a little push, a little force applied, if you will, to get going. Don't wait to apply this force. Talk to people, get to know them and try to see a friend in everyone you meet :)
Hope you guys don't mind I talked about you in my little journal thingy. I am really glad I got to become friends with each one of you and wish we became friends earlier:)
And sorry for getting nerdy in the end, however it was the best analogy I could think of.
