Meeting Friends For The First Time

Every significant friendship starts with a first meeting. Somewhere in time an encounter with someone, perhaps even by happenstance, where all you do is say hello, becomes a seed planted for a wonderful relationship. Although I believe in love at first sight, my guess is that it is more common to be in the vicinity of your future friend without knowing it. Only after something or some other person serendipitously causes a first conversation can the friendship be conceived.

The focus of this post is to lift up the reality that every person you meet has the potential to become a friend. Only with time do we discover these things. Nevertheless, if we anticipate, that is, if we actually aggressively look for the possibility that the people we meet could become our friends, I believe we increase the likelihood that we will indeed create more friends.

The focus of this post is not to propose that we all need more friends. Such decisions are individual preference. It is, however, an interesting and reassuring fact that in a complex world where a good friend is hard to find, one may not have to look too far to find that someone special. Consider the people you meet this week as first time strangers and possibly long time friends. You'll know the difference and celebrate the outcome!