5 minutes
Embarrassing coincidences friends!
Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
November 21, 2021
Social relationships are an important factor in achieving happiness. When you think about the important friendships in your life, images of certain people pop up in your mind. They may be childhood friends with whom you have shared unforgettable experiences.
They may be the group of your friends that you meet in the council or the café who attended your weddings and your sorrows.
They may be your co-workers who you spend half your waking hours with in the office, or of course they may be your neighbours.
Friendships are divided according to social research into categories, including: friends for life, close friends, friends of joint activities (you meet them at the gym, for example, or at a specific event, and do not mix with them afterwards).
Olfa friends (include co-workers).
In order to thrive in a life overshadowed by isolation, you must gather your friends from all of the above groups so that you have multiple layers of friendships, because this is positively related to general life satisfaction, and this is a global scale used to assess the happiness and quality of life of peoples.
If you interact with a group of friends of the mentioned types, within a week, for example, it gives you opportunities to interact with different people, which adds renewal to your life, regardless of your age, and at any stage of your life, it is necessary to have a multi-layer network of friendships .
This network will give you extreme diversity in your life, help you develop relationships outside your safety zone, and encourage you to learn other points of view, new tastes and new ways of looking at and living life.
Attitude:
Years ago I went with a friend to a council that we used to go to on a daily basis in Ramadan. At that gathering there were at least seven new people to me. My friend sat next to me on the right and was busy eating, while I was chatting with another friend on my left whom I met there.
I rose from my place to greet a man I knew in the corner of the council, and returned to finish the conversation with the first friend.
A quarter of an hour passed, and here my friend, whom I came with, started eating in a way that annoyed me, so I wanted to warn him.
I turned to him suddenly and jokingly told him: Aren't you satisfied?
But the one sitting next to me on the right was not my friend, and he was a man I didn't know!
Half of the audience burst out laughing at the situation, including the strange man who was shocked at my comment first and then laughed!
Then I realized that my friend with whom I had come came out of the council to answer a call.
Although it is a very embarrassing situation, the strange man has become a friend who greets me warmly whenever he meets me anywhere, and sits with me in the cafe when he sees me once every month or two, and this is a new classification of friendship I call embarrassing coincidence friends!
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