Recently I’ve noticed, though I’ve been single for quite some time now, as I had a bad experience with my last relationship and others before that, since then I’ve been trying to search for my one, for something real, so I haven’t been wanting to rush into anything serious without getting to know that person first and have been wanting purely friendship, just to rebuild my confidence and faith in that what we see in the movies isn’t fake and does really exist somewhere, but I’ve noticed, that the term “just friends” is getting to the point where it’s easier said than done, when did it become an automatic reflex for people to start reading between the lines of a simple gesture of friendship with pessimism that something is wanted in return, when did it become near to impossible for an act of simple decency, caring for the sake of caring, to not be misconstrued and twisted into something that it’s not, maybe the saying two people can never just be friends has more truth to it than people think, I’ll just be hopeful that my one comes sooner rather than later, before any more friendships become complicated and tense for no real reason, but I was just wondering, if there really is a way to establish some sort of friendship with someone?, without just blurting out to a person you’ve only just met about your relationship history and making things even more tense than they have to be, is there an effective way to get into the “just friends zone” with someone?