I have trouble making friends, do you have any advice for me?

I find this to be a very interesting question because there isn’t really one true way to make friends; different people look for different things in friends. Obviously be a nice person, but more importantly, be true to yourself. Friends are people you need to confide in and that can get you through difficult situations, so the last thing you want is for a friendship to be founded on a lie, whether you are lying to the friend or yourself. That’s really all the advice I can give you. Remember that there is always a friend out there who will like you for who you are, not what they want you to be. I remember when I was a child and I had moved to a new school, I had absolutely no friends. I would mope about at recess watching everyone have fun and play, while I was eating my lunch alone. I tried to fit in with other kids but we simply didn’t have the same interests, and faking it just didn’t seem right. Eventually, I began to open up about my interests, (which for me at the time included dragon ball z and Pokémon) and I soon found friends with similar interests! It’s been smooth sailing since then; ten years on and I still talk to those friends. So remember, as long as you are a nice person and you stay true, you will find friendship.

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Author: Jay Dhillon