Should I expect to be best friends with my roommate?

Should I expect to be best friends with my roommate?

Your roommate might be your best friend, man, and that would be awesome. My roommate wasn't my best friend. Actually, my roommate and I don't even talk anymore. He started this "silent treatment" thing. It was my first freshman year, and we we're living together, and he decided he wasn't going to talk to me anymore. And it was interesting, because I decided I was going to still talk to him. I even talked to him more, which was amazing. So we didn't end up being best friends. We didn't even turn out to be friends, and I was really nice. Like, I would go out to eat and I'd be like, "Hey, I'm going to go grab something to eat, if you're not hungry, don't say anything." And he wouldn't say anything, and I'd be like, "Alright then, cool. I'm just trying to be polite." But then, I had another roommate in my second freshman year, who I just saw the other day and we're great friends. So, you never know what you're going to get. Your roommate might be your best friend, and your roommate might not be your best friend. The best advice is to give your roommate permission to not be your best friend. Give your roommate permission to not love everything you do. Give your roommate permission to be whoever he or she is. And, at the minimum, as I've said before, expect to share space, and expect to get along. If you want to get along, you should find a way to get along.