"Can We Be Friends?"

Is this a great pick-up line? *giggles. Can you guys come up with a smarter pick-up line next time? I received the same line again and again and the most recent one is earlier this afternoon. Oh come on. Let me tell you guys something. If you want to make friends… You don’t need to plan it. You don’t just come to someone and say, “Can we be friends?” Seriously, I find that kinda…what you call it? Childish? Old-school? Yeah…something like that. I only need 2 guys who say the same thing, and already I can call that “a trend”. The first time I got it, it was on the phone – with a guy I met on a short course. He said this to me, “Buli kita berkawan?” And I was like, What kind of question is that? Hahahaha. I didn’t know what to answer him. It was awkward! *giggles. Why do you have to ask? Let the friendship happen naturally, mutually. If you guys have the chemistry, good things will happen. As simple as that. Look at how many times a friend cheats on you? Look how many times a friend backbite you? Or maybe even steal your lover? Someone you call a friend can do all the evil things to you. When you use the line, “Can we be friends?” – it starts to sound so absurd when you don’t even know the person yet and already you offer a friendship with such formality – and you do all that with the knowledge that some of the friends that you already know for years are the one who hurt you through many different crimes at least one time in your life. You should have known that A FRIEND is more than just a word. It needs trust, commitment, chemistry and a lot of understanding. Things like this, DO TAKE TIME. So don’t come to me and ask me “CAN WE BE FRIENDS?” because I definitely don’t want to hurt you by saying all that long explanation. If you want to make friends, just get along with each other and see where it’s going. That’s all. The rest will take care of its own business. Let it be natural. Try it.