Best Friends: How to Grow a Friend
A twelve-step program
The best time to grow a best friend is before you need one!
Written or compiled by Joy Stevens
1. People Equal Friends.
There is a certain chemistry with friends just as in a love relationship.
Therefore, contact with other people is the first building block to grow a friend. Friends can't grow in a vacuum. Best friends take time.
2. Talking Is Essential Among Friends.
Talking between friends requires reciprocity. In a mutually satisfying friendship, both friends talk and both friends listen. Friends talk appropriately to each other.
3. Friends Acknowledge Friends.
Friends acknowledge each other when talking. Many conflicts in your personal relationships can be avoided if you will take the time to acknowledge other's feelings and points of view.
4. Friends Listen to Friends.
Listening to friends in an important step in building a closer friendship. We often take listening for granted, never realizing what it means to really listen to a friend.
5. Friends Attend to Friends.
Friends focus during conversations. Friends pay attention in conversations. It means that your ears, your eyes, your body and your feelings are all focused on that person at the time.
6. Friends Show Empathy With Friends.
Empathy is identifying with your friend's feelings and seeing life through your friend's eyes. Confidences are freely given when they are received with empathy among friends.
7. Friends Touch Friends.
Touching is a warm form of communication between friends. When you see best friends communicating, you will notice friends "listen with their eyes," stand close together, and touch comfortably.
questions
1. how many friends do you meet regularly?
2. Do you have a specail way to make a new friend?
3. My best freind is ( ).
Please tell us what kind of your best friend is?
4. Is it hard or easy for you to be familiar with strangers, classamte, friend etc
5. pleas write down your best friend's name if you have.....
You are a cool, cool friend!