Since I’m big into having specific goals (ie. “lose 15.5 pounds by my birthday” and not “lose weight”), I thought I’d specify my criteria for these five new friends.
I wish I remembered who I knew and how well when I wrote this so I knew who I could count as “new”.
Anyway, for lack of a better method of measuring “friendness”, I am going to use the following:
1. I must be able to call this person and say, “Hey, do you want to go to dinner tonight?” and it wouldn’t sound weird.
2. I have to be happy that I am associating with this person. (No cheating here and spending time with people I can’t stand just so I can check this one off my list.)(And then dumping them right afterwards.) This is an honest goal.
I will fill in the new friend’s codenames (to protect the identities of someone who is a persoanl goal of mine without realizing it—doesn’t this sound like the basis of some bad romantic comedy? ... yeah – just a little) here as the frienships are born:
F1:
F2:
F3:
F4:
F5:
