5 stages of a friendship: 1. Intro phase — where you are trying to know each other but you hesitate a bit. 2. Knowing phase — where you’re getting to know each other. Where you are from, what you do, what you like, and what you don’t like. 3. Understanding phase — where you try to understand each other, and you get to understand them. 4. The shocking phase; this comes in every friendship. When you look at someone and say, “He can do this too.” “He is this kind of person.” Whether it is good or b