Find Common Ground
Story time! I was streaming League of Legends one day, and doing terribly I might add, and I saw some one commenting in my channel chat. He went by the name Masonator117. Now he is giving me some tips on how to improve and like any ‘bronzey’ I was like “Pft, My team sucks. Not me.” but I didn’t say that. Instead I asked if the ‘117’ in his name came from the the Halo series (John-117/Master Chief is the lead protagonist). To which he said it was and it all took off from there. He turned out to be in ‘gold’ league so he give me some tips. He said “Merry Christmas” to me and I said “Happy New Year” to him. We still play League of Legends together to this day. End of story and it was still a better love story than Twilight.
The point is that a pair of decisions both of us made caused an event which had an effect on a relatively distant future that has only benefited us both. We have had some fun games together, he can obviously lift from carrying my ass in all of them. And that is what friendship does. Makes it a better experience so get out there and nerd out. Hell, I’ve even started a conversation based on some one having a name similar to a character in Raymond. E. Feist’s Riftwar saga.
Making new friends isn’t as hard as it may appear at first if you can find some common ground. Admittedly it can be hard sometimes but just try and you’ll be fine.
