No man is an island as it is always said but quite often we hear people say I don’t have any friends and try to base their reasons on religion and other sentiments probably due to a bad experience in their past relationships. It should be noted that religion does not barrier anyone from having friends, it is your personal decision.
After you have determined the answers for the 3-W question, Discovery question and Classification question as explained in Knowing Yourself to Choose your Friends — Steemit
https://steemit.com/relationship/@dajin/knowing-yourself-to-choose-your-friends then you can go ahead with the question: Hi, am Johnson, can we be friends? You should know that
You have to find and locate people moving in your direction. If your intended friend does move in the same direction as you then there is bound to be a problem in the long run. You must be willing to socialize and interact with others as well as increasing your area of interest to be able to meet new people and do not forget about your value system. Remember the risk of getting your heart broken is nothing compared to the problem of living in isolation.
Be sure not to judge a book by its cover. A person walks to you and says can we be friends? And just as the question lands you attack and rain down brim stones on the unfortunate soul only to discover this person would have made a great friend and that’s when you hear things like I am sorry about the way I acted can we still be friends. To you that is rejected it is not the end of the world. Do well to evaluate your past relationship to ensure that you don’t repeat the same mistakes in the new relationship.
You and your intended friend are not perfect and on this note should learn to tolerate each other and not make issues out of little things. Learns to negotiate and come to a comprise that is not at the risk of your values. It is important to know when to stop a friendship/ relationship if there is no progress but stagnation.