So we all have those friends you're really close with. you guys probably met during elementary school, middle school, high school, college, was on a basketball team together, join a club, had the same job, etc.
The friends you hung out with during those times you might consider close to, but how well do you know them?
Today, I was talking to one of my co-workers after work today. We usually discuss about what we did at work that day.
I feel like I am pretty good friends with my co-worker considering the fact that I never hung out with him before outside of work (beside the work holiday party).
Then I thought to myself, we really learn about someone after hours of whatever you are a part of or involved in.
Let me elaborate.
For an example, I talk about my buddy Taylor at times. I say I know this guy more than anyone of my friends right now.
People that know us remembers Taylor and I playing on the same junior college baseball team for one year, meaning I hung out with Taylor only at the baseball field.
Little did people know, the first time I hung out with Taylor was before the semester start at El Camino when I transferred back there.
I didn't know him at the time but we were friends on Facebook and saw a status he posted. I asked him if he wanted to talk it out and so we met up at the Wahoo's in Torrance.
Never ever talked to him before, but I thought since we were going to be teammates, why not talk to this guy.
Ever since that day at Wahoo's, he's been like a brother to me. Always taking care of me and looking after me.
During that year we went to State Championships in 2010, it wasn't just about going to practices and games, but it was about hanging and drinking beers and eating 12 blackjack tacos, watching punk'd or parental control on MTV on a 1990 big screen TV, smoking a cigar on his last day in the South Bay before he left for San Diego, going to graduations and talking about life.
Other examples would be college and/or after bar hours, but that's a whole another story.
Sometimes taking risk and hanging out with someone, even if it late at night or you have to skip dinner to help them out, is worth the time to make a better friendship with someone.
If I didn't hit up Taylor to meet up at Wahoo's, who knows if we would have been friends in the long run and where I'll be in life right now. For all I know, I might be working in a cubicle office space right now.
Don't get me wrong, every one of my friends mean the world to me. But hanging out outside of whatever is going on makes it more memorable.
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