About Rebecca Eckler
Since becoming pregnant with her daughter Rowan, Canadian journalist and author Rebecca Eckler has penned three hilarious books, including the best-selling Knocked Up. Catch Rebecca’s weekly unique perspective on motherhood and single parenthood.
How does one go about making friends? In my quest to find the answer, I actually watched my daughter at the park, as research, to see how she went about making new friends. I couldn’t really copy my daughter in the “making-a-new-friend department,” unless I invited this woman I liked to the park and followed her down a slide. Seems like that’s all it takes for six-year-olds to become fast friends.
I met this woman at a party recently. We were seated next to each other. And we just hit it off. She made me laugh. She had great stories. I liked her. Luckily, we lived near each other.
It’s not that I don’t meet women I like. I meet women I like all the time. It’s just that I don’t actually become friends with them. After a certain age, you realize who your good friends are, and you stick with them. You also aren’t in school, or stuck in the same office, so you don’t really get the chance to meet new friends of the same sex. Also, who has the time to meet new friends when you barely see your best friends?
This woman and I exchanged emails that night. I was kind of sad, thinking our meeting was going to be like yet another cocktail party, when people throw out the line, “We should get together,” and then you never do. Then next time you see them, you say, “We should get together!” and you never do.
I actually invited her to “come work out with me sometime,” and she suggested we “work out and then go for lunch sometime.”
I was surprised when “sometime” actually came into fruition. She actually emailed me. I actually emailed her back within a day, and we actually met up! We planned to meet at the gym and then go for lunch or back to her place to sit by her pool.
I was excited that day. I couldn’t believe how excited I was, in fact. What are we going to talk about, I wondered. Will it be awkward? Will she like me? Yes, my friends, meeting a new friend is kind of like dating.
It all went well. We now IM all the time. We have plans to go to a party. There’s just something, well, DELICIOUS about meeting a new friend, isn’t there? Especially when you’re an adult. And, it’s even better when it’s a woman because you don’t have to worry about shaving your legs. HA!
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