Is building trust and growing genuine care for someone easy for you?
Trust is always a gamble, at extreme you are putting your life on the line and you never know if the other person will decide to betray you next time regardless of what they did in the past.
Caring about someone is even harder as it is not a conscious choice we are making, it is feeling. You can't just decide from today I care about this person so they are my friend.
My point was, how do you know someone is your friend not how to make one. There is no method to make friends, at best some tips or guidelines.
I think there are only 2 questions you need to answer to decide if someone is your friend.
1. Do you trust them?
2. Do you care about them?
Ideally it should reciprocated. The hard part is getting there, usually it comes naturally as you spend more time with the other person out of your own volition.
Just because you are meeting someone everyday at work does not mean they will become your friends, do you trust them? do you care about them?
Once you friends you don't need to meet often as long the trust and care is still there. You can become friends in short time as well if you decide to put the trust early into the other person and they reciprocate. Point is, there is no formula or plan to follow.
When I say friend I mean a true friend, not colleagues or acquaintances. Were these meanings mixed into "friend" word before Facebook as well?
Very interesting post especially as I am myself currently working on my first firebase based app and making sure I don't get huge bills is one of my worries.
Just little correction needed:
> July last year, a crowd funding campaign went viral in Columbia
Trust is always a gamble, at extreme you are putting your life on the line and you never know if the other person will decide to betray you next time regardless of what they did in the past.
Caring about someone is even harder as it is not a conscious choice we are making, it is feeling. You can't just decide from today I care about this person so they are my friend.
My point was, how do you know someone is your friend not how to make one. There is no method to make friends, at best some tips or guidelines.