Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone or observing some and thinking for some reason that you should get to know them?
It’s an odd feeling. Sometimes you can’t tell whether it’s just because they’re cool and you want to get to know them, or if it’s because they are highly compatible with you, or if it’s because God is drawing you to each other.
The most common thing that people think of as I write about this is likely the romantic love that starts similar to this. When you fall in love with someone that you meet and feel the urge to get to know them.
But what if there’s a similar urge, but it’s not in a romantic way at all. You just genuinely want to get to know someone and become friends. It seems there’s not always an easy path to this besides the “let’s get coffee” which we all default to.
I’m sure it’s somewhere out there, but I would love to figure out a better way to get to know these people. How can you build a friendship that is mutually beneficial for one another without being weird about it?
Sometimes, the answer may be as simple as “hey, I would love to get to know you better, I have this hobby. Would you be interested in doing this hobby sometime?” Or insert something else if you hate the hobby idea.
We’re too full of ourselves and want to make ourselves look cool that sometimes we forget that if we open up ourselves to looking dumb sometimes, we put ourselves in the greatest situations.
Who should you know?