Making friends when you\u2019re a kid is easy. Remember when you were six, and one minute you were best friends with somebody because they liked the same things as you – and by the end of the day you were best friends with somebody else because you both had the same coloured shoes. Ah yes, those were the days.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, it doesn\u2019t always come so naturally. Over the years we\u2019ve gotten a little more self-restrained, a little more self-conscious, and a lot less impulsive. In other words, we\u2019re much too scared of saying or doing the wrong thing, out of fear of looking like an idiot in front of other people who would then reject our friendship. And it\u2019s not reflective of some flaw in our personalities, or some innate inability to make friends; it\u2019s just a part of growing up.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, shouldn\u2019t we each take a leaf out of our six-year-old-selves and start living a little more\u2026 childishly. Or to put it another way, a little less seriously. So to show you what we mean, here\u2019s 3 ways of making friends when you were young and how to translate them over to today:<\/p>\n
\u2018Give me a crisp and I\u2019ll be your friend\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n
A classic example of playground trickery resulting in instant friendship. Of course, it was never about getting your greedy mitts on somebody else\u2019s food, it was about getting somebody\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n
These days, you can\u2019t exactly go around asking potential mates for a swig of their pint or a bite of their lunch in exchange for your friendship (they\u2019d think you were mad). But you can do the next best thing, making yourself known.<\/p>\n
Sharing your best felt tips<\/b><\/p>\n
Finding a coloured felt tip pen that hadn\u2019t run dry was always the most challenging thing about class (that and making sure you\u2019re colouring stayed within the lines). So it was always going to be instant BFF\u2019s when somebody shared theirs with you.<\/p>\n
Hopefully by now you\u2019ve learned to use a proper pen, but that shouldn\u2019t stop you from attending to the needs of others, sharing what you have to offer in order to get to know somebody else a little better. In short, it\u2019s your round at the bar.<\/p>\n
Inventing stuff<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
If you were a girl, it was probably daisy chains and rose-petal perfume. If you were a boy, it was probably something altogether different and involved new ways of making the girls cry.<\/p>\n
Either way, coming up with new and exciting things to do together can often form the basis of a longer lasting friendship. So the next time you\u2019re out with a group of people, why not propose a future activity to experience for the first time together.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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