Meeting a new friend

I love meeting new people it is one of my favorite things to do, part of the reason is well, I love to talk but I love knowing peoples stories because everyone is so different and I believe every person has a good quality in them no matter how they appear. When meeting someone a person normally judges them with in the first 30 seconds of meeting someone. That is a very short time to get a person to “know” you. So that is why when beginning a relationship with someone and meeting them for the first time instead of judging them immediately when you see them, try and focus on nonverbal communication and their gestures, or maybe get another chance to know them. It was hard for me to decide on whom I should approach for this assignment. I have a very diverse looking group of friends so there was no particular person I could find that I felt strange approaching. Recently I was at my younger cousin’s volleyball team and there was this kind looking women sitting next to me. So I decided to find out if this kind looking women was as kind as she appeared. I sat down next to her and began with small comments about the game here and there, I did not want to overwhelm her, and this is the initiating part of relationship development. Her name is Amanda and she is an accountant teacher at a high school and has one son and a daughter. Then I noticed a shirt she was wearing that said Randolph Rams on it, which was my viral school in high school. That made it much easier to strike up conversation with this woman now. I questioned her on her shirt wondering if she lived there or knew someone. Once I asked that I suppose that would be the experimenting part of relationship development because I wanted to see if we had anything in common. I actually found out that I know her daughter Katy and we played basketball against one another. After that it was easy to keep the conversation going because we had basketball in common. I suppose the stages might have skipped a few because I would consider this a bonding stage, it was an hour long game there was plenty of time to talk. I really enjoyed meeting Amanda the nice looking women that was just as sweet as she looked.