Let's be friends?

I was talking to Michelle and we both agreed that maybe dating is not for us. We haven’t even dated much, and we’re already disheartened. Oy.

I generally like most people I encounter and I notice that I get easily attached to people—platonically attached. When things don’t work out, no matter who ends it, I immediately lament the impossibility of remaining—or rather, becoming—friends. I’ve had the unusual good fortune of running into some really nice guys. So when things end (as they seem to do quite often lately), I’m sad because they’re good people, I hardly got to know them, and if not boyfriend and girlfriend, we could have at least been friends. Of course, I can’t say, “Hey, let’s be friends,” because it sounds lame and insincere (even if I genuinely mean it) and the feeling is not often reciprocated. I wish for something more constant, not this perpetual flux of acquaintances.