Joy feelings magazine Feb 2020 | Page 65

A huge mistake people often make when meeting someone is they let their hopes get dashed when they don’t see any initial chemistry. So they give up on them. This drives me nuts! This person might be friends with your future significant other! Why give up so quickly before they can introduce you?! For example, if you’re a woman looking for a man, and you make friends with a guy but there’s no spark, you may think why bother talking to him again? But this guy knows a ton of other guys! Imagine if you met one new guy a week. After a year, that’s 52 men, plus all their friends and cousins and co-workers. How quickly do you think you’d be introduced to a guy who’s right for you? So keep making friends and don’t hesitate to ask them for help. Remember, you’re practicing your dating skills by meeting people, even in casual social situations. This way when you finally meet someone you’d like to ask out, it’ll feel natural. You’ve practiced cracking jokes, you’ve