How Do You Make New Friends In Strange Places?
In today’s go-go sociality it is a hard to swallow fact that most of us will end up moving away from our place of birth. Facing a town full of people you don’t know can be a daunting task, scary even. But with a few simple tricks and some practice one can have a new entourage with a week or two. Be bold: Fear is your worse enemy and greatest ally when it comes to making friends. Fear can stop you dead in your tracks when you need to take that final step, not a good thing. Yet fear is also what makes other people sit alone when they want to be in a group. Have you ever gone into a cafeteria and noticed how many people are eating alone, or even a library? Now, sometimes people simply want to be left to themselves, but most the time they are secretly begging for someone to talk to them. So do so, walk up to someone that looks bored and ask if you can sit with them. Ask them what they are doing, how they are. Don’t be afraid to keep things causal. If they say they need to leave, let them.
