I am amazed at the power of greeting people lately. All our lives we are taught to say hello to people when we see them, just out of common courtesy. It's the natural thing to do. Of course, we normally only do this to people we know. But Kimberly and I have began saying hello to people we hardly know at all, and guess what? We have like.. ten more friends than we used to have.
How are we supposed to make friends if we don't introduce ourselves, y'know? I was thinking about that today. For example, a few months ago at one of our Tri-Stake Dances, Kimberly asked Albert if he remembered her from when they were kids. Since then me and Kimberly have not only become better friends with him but with a few of his friends that also go to the dances. Another example is Keenan, who I met at Ceana's 16th birthday party. I sat down and before even Ceana had greeted me, Keenan, who I had never met at the time, said, "Hi, I'm Keenan." Now, it's really just a friendly gesture. You meet someone and you say hi and you get on with your life. But if he hadn't have been so friendly from the start, we probably wouldn't be good friends right now. Just aquaintances that met at a party.
So basically all I'm saying is, if you want to talk to someone or make a friend, say HELLO for goodness sakes! Oh my goodness gracious! It makes a difference. It really does.
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