depends on the person one is trying to become friends with, it

depends on one's gender, it depends on one's age, but most

importantly it depends one's personality. Every individual is

different and how they make friends differs just as greatly. The

way I make friends depends heavily on my personality. As an

introverted person, I tend to first meet potential friends through

what I call forced association. After the initial meeting, I

evaluate them and determine whether or not I think they should be

my friend. Bonding, specifically male bonding, follows and

Before I can delve into the sometimes mysterious process of

becoming friends with someone, I have to divulge some personal

information. I am a great believer in personality typing: the

theory that a great majority of people fall into one personality

type or another. A complete analysis of my personality is not

within the scope of this essay, but suffice it to say that I am

very introverted. This does not mean I am anti-social, it merely

means that new and non-routine interaction with others taxes my

stage with more than a handful of friends in my lifetime. This is

evaluate and re-evaluate myself, my friends, my schoolwork, and so

together at his house every day, went out to movies on the weekend

impossible for me to reach it with any other friends. I only have

Andres and I (along with another very close friend) ate lunch

friends with them. I have been told that this is an extremely

make it clear to them, either by direct confrontation or by

knowledge and skills alone make a person boring, so I also look for

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