The Art of Making Friends

Moving on to Season 2 in The Big Bang Theory, was quite entertained by Sheldon's (his fictional personality profile can be found here) Friendship Algorithm which was derived from a children's storybook he read about making friends.

A short snippet of how Sheldon puts this theory into practice can be found here.

While most of us normal individuals don't usually put the science into friendship making, this provided me with some food for thought on the mode for building of bonds. Pondering over my friendships, realised this could be due to the overlapping of lives largely attributed to:

• Common interests: same ECA, hobbies or even mutual enemies; and
• Shared history: the person who sat next to you in class, your fellow course mate in university or your workplace friends.

While most of us are usually not as heartless as Sheldon who decides to prioritize his friends due to his perceived limited bandwidth of no more than 4 at any one time, we all have our own fair share of temporal and transient friends.

Admittedly, it takes alot of effort to cultivate/maintain friendships and as one gets older with more commitments and less time, it seems deceptively easier to just give up. Nevertheless, this is not a valid excuse and I shall endeavour to get my schedule in order. *takes out PDA*

Dinner anyone?