Making new friends shouldn't be a big deal but because of how dangerous people are nowadays make it difficult for most people to make new friends.
Having many friends is good but because we don't know who really wants to be our friend genuinely makes most people scared to have plenty of friends.
I have once tried having plenty of friends but in the end, they ended up being the enemy I don't know.
There was a time I found it difficult to make friends with people because of what some friends had done to me in the past, there was a friend of mine I met in the factory back then. She was homeless and I took her in but my sister wasn't cool with her staying in our house, so I took her to my ex-boyfriend's house since he doesn't stay at home every day he always comes home during the weekend.
I never knew what I did was bad by giving her a roof over her head. When my ex-boyfriend came home I explained to him since he had a big apartment, he was kind enough to allow her to stay in his house.
I didn't suspect anything going on between them but I just noticed that he didn't call me he was back home like he always does and when he left for work I didn't get any text either but I thought he was busy until one day I wanted to surprise him by visiting him without telling him I was coming over.
I got to his house and met the girl on his chest, I couldn't believe my eyes so I called his name and that was when the two of them separated. I wanted to fight for the relationship but then I remembered that if I should do anything right there I might commit a crime that I will regret for the rest of my life so I left the house for them.
He ran after me to explain how she lured him into it but there was nothing to justify his actions.
"Babe I am sorry, the girl made me do it, I mean your friend," he said.
I looked at him as if I should stab him in his face but I didn't want to go to jail.
"It's fine you can have her all to yourself," I replied then left.
You see one thing about making friends is that you wouldn't know the kind of people they are until you get closer to them, or open your beautiful heart to them.
For some years, I couldn't bring myself to make new friends because anytime someone approached me as a friend the past flashed back on my head and I would be like, they would end up hurting me so I took my mind off anyone trying to be my friend.
Some years later I realized that it's not a bad idea to give people a second chance, so I told myself I wanted to make new friends and ever since then I have had some friends even though I don't put all my mind as I did before, because I wouldn't want anyone to hurt me again all in the name of having friends.
So to answer the HL weekly prompt, "Are you those who find it easy to make friends?" Yes, I find it easy to make friends because I have a plain heart and a very soft mind as well and that makes me find it easy to make friends with people, even back then before I got hurt by a close friend.
How I go about making friends is by checking up on people and having a cool conversation with them, some years back I didn't know how to do this because I didn't want to get hurt again but as time went on I realized that we human needs each other and that doesn't mean I wanted to ask people for help but sometimes we just need to talk to people.
Do I prefer having plenty of friends? I don't think I want that, because too much of everything can be dangerous. From what I have learned in my past relationships with friends I wouldn't want plenty of friends but the few I have would be good I guess. By having too much of friends someone can have an enemy as a friend since they are too much so I wouldn't want that to happen to me. So I prefer a few friends and that makes me happy.