"Let's be real friends." Sarah, a coworker and FB friend, said this to me a while back. We fell in together at our company's Christmas happy hour as we often do at such events. We were saying goodbye and probably discussing the possibility of getting together again. It was a perfect statement--how without overdoing it, simply saying that actual friends do more, make more of an effort.
So I emailed her yesterday, basically asking her out to dinner so we could be "real friends." I found myself getting a little nervous awaiting her reply.
I also went ahead and emailed a few other casual friends/coworkers and former coworkers in the same spirit. One woman got back to me that night and we quickly made dinner plans. Another hedged a little when I broached the subject of grabbing lunch. I don't think it was the idea she rejected. It had more to do with the practicalities of actually making it happen. The lunch idea was left hanging out there and no date was made. I was a little surprised actually. I expected the opposite. I don't know whether to bring it up again or let it lie.
Sarah got back to me and apparently remembered the "let's be real friends." And we just might make a plan and try it.
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