I had a get together with my new friend.
She is one of my neighbors. She and her family moved into our area three years ago. From our first impression, we both liked each other. Whenever we saw each other during my walking, we chatted for a while in the street. We exchanged our phone number and mentioned about having a get together some time.
I didn’t call her right away though. I wanted to be cautious to make a new friend in this county.
Here is my reason for being cautious.
In my first several years in this country, I freely made new friends. Soon I realized some of them were Christians with strong personalities. They aggressively tried to convince me into going to their church and changing my belief into theirs. I encountered such people more than 10, or maybe much more than 20 or 30. Dealing with such people was very uncomfortable experiences for me.
I respect everybody’s free will. I honor each person to have their own believe and religion. I have my own belief and religion. It is fine as long as nobody forces theirs to others. I don’t force mine to others, and they should stay away from forcing me to theirs.
Anyways, that is why I am cautious, especially when making a new friend with a Christian.
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So, at the very first moment of our get together, I politely told her about my feeling. I knew she is a Christian and goes to church. I requested her to respect each other’s religion and belief. I am not going to force her to believe mine, and I want her to do the same.
I waited for her reaction. If she reacted as the same way as the previous people, I was about to leave her place right away.
She was different from the previous people.
She agreed with me. She has gone through the similar experiences and she didn’t like it. She promised me not to force me to believe her religion.
I got so relieved to hear that.
So, that was how we started our getting to know each other.
I actually enjoyed her company. I arrived at her house at 10:30 a.m., and we were so into our conversation that the next moment I noticed was almost 3 p.m.
I like her a lot. I hope we can build our friendship slowly and sturdy.
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