I've always been a person with lots of aquaintances and no true friends... but that all changed fairly recently. Here's what happened...
I moved cities, moving away from my family who I used to depend on for a lot of things. I was alone in a new city, and I met lots of acquaintances through my normal activities (sports, work, etc.), and I worked on being independent.
Needless to say, I wasn't 100% capable of dealing with everything that came up... (like who was going to boost my car when I forgot to plug it in, and who was going to water my plants when I was away...)
So I resolved to ask some of the acquaintances that I got along best with to help me out. Well they didn't refuse, and in fact asked me for similar favours in return... from there it escalated to some pretty close friendships.
Peter was bang on when he said give with out expecting anything in return, and you can also ask for help too... just let them know that you'll be happy to return the favour.
Kristina
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