How To Make Friends

arslan ahmad
Jul 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Dale Carnegie says “you make more friends by taking interest in other people in two months than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you”.Just a few years back i was going to appear in my medical entrance test held in Islamabad.after reaching there I feel that i was the only person there from lower Punjab.I just made me scared because I don’t know about the people living in big cities and not know how they would behave if i suddenly want to ask something.

All of sudden I saw a boy looking scared just like me and standing alone in a corner.I just realized that he is probably facing the same problem as I am.I went to him and ask his name, city, and about some educational type question as you know just like,what is your percentage in matriculation and intermediate? and so on.After some time we stared the normal conversation just like friends indeed brothers.He stared telling me why he want to be a doctor and how he came here .Similar information was given by mine.

It was quite amazing and stress relieving and we just stared discussing about the exam,answering the questions of each others about science subjects.After test we moved together to bus terminal and then went to our houses.After this incident rather I should say accident I just stared to chat with peoples not familiar with me and stared taking part in other people’s activities and I found that it was quite easy to make friends.

If anyone waits that someone will be impressed by his personality and came to him and say helo Sir I want to be your friend so I think this is not working anymore.I just start to contact my friends with whom I was not in touch regularly.Some of them are doing jobs and some still are studying .After this all I found that when asked about them,their routines and activities they were excitingly telling me everything with sweat language you know among the friends.

So after all this activity i found that it is very interesting rather i should say necessary to indulge ourselves into other people’s activities but not in personal one’s off course .So the final words are it is nice to take interest rather than being interesting.keep this formula in mind while meeting with other people.