The requirements to make real life friends are that we must be around people to meet people. We have to interact with them in the right way. And the most important part that we have to initiate to make that first meet into a long term friendship.

For the achievement of this we should possess some basic qualities such as:

• First of all, we need to realize that each person has an inborn temperament.
• The other person has the right to be different from what we are and we have to accept them. We should respect them.
• Our behavior and attitude should be the same as we expect from them.
• We should not expect any kind of miracles which makes the concerned person our friend in one day or so.
• We have to give the person the time and space so that they can know us and gradually accept us as we r.
• The most important aspect that we should keep in mind is that even we should take our own time to test and accept them and not reveal our secrets and blindly start trusting them.
• At the initial stages we should be very careful as not to be constantly talking on the weaknesses of other people or gossiping about them because this may make the person in front feel that we may have the same attitude at their backs.
• In spite of keeping the above facts in mind remember each one of us has standards of morality and behavior.
• We should therefore not compromise ourselves for the sake of 'fitting in' with a group. Always keep the popular saying in mind that “WE DON’T MAKE FRIENDS BUT RECOGNIZE THEM”. So if he is truly our friend he will never make us compromise with our values.