How Much Can We Be Empowered to Shape Our Own Friendship Story?

I see a lot of conversation I'm sure you do too but about the almost positions friendship as something that happens to us. We can be intentional about positioning ourselves to invite healthy connections and if a situation does happen that's ambiguous okay I control over how I'm gonna interpret this say hello or let fear totally immobilize me. If you go for it and reach out to people I think you'll be very surprised by how many people are open to you like we know from the science that we experience a negativity bias which means all of our projections tend to be more cynical than the actual truth.