A friend of mine mentioned something to me today that I couldn't help but laugh about. But although I felt what he said was a bit silly, it also did make some amount of sense.
He had told me that he wished people would walk alone more often, rather than walk with a friend beside them. Because apparently, it is a lot easier to approach someone from the opposite sex when it's just them walking than to approach them when they're with a friend or with someone else.
And while that was funny to me, because them being with a friend shouldn't make that much of a difference, it also made sense because what if the person they're with happens to be their partner, which you have no idea of? Then you just might find yourself getting embarrassed or involved in a brawl you didn't bargain for.
As a matter of fact, I've thought about this same topic myself. And the reason was because I've seen a lot of videos where a lady gets approached by a random stranger, only for her friend to come in between them and remind her that they don't talk to strangers.
Some of these videos just feel like ragebait because you could see clearly that the lady that was approached also seemed to be interested in the guy who approached her, only for her friend to butt in and end the whole thing. The funny thing, though, is that in most of those videos, the comments almost always have the same thing written in them, about how it's always the fridge protecting the snacks.
But yeah, I guess all I'm trying to say is that every once in a while, it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a walk alone; you just might never know who might approach you and want to be friends with you. And this doesn't just apply to one gender, but to both.
