I am 23, Male, doing PhD in CS. There is a guy in my batch with whom I want to be close friends with. We discussed this already. Let me call him 'M'. Now some of my friends meet 'M' & interact with him a lot. But they don't interact much with me. I am afraid about the following things. 1-Why I am not at the center of interest, why people don't interact with me much? 2-Since other people I know interact with 'M' too often, does it mean 'M' wouldn't be my close friend? Rather he will be close with other people? 3-I am currently not interacting with 'M' much because I feel sometimes understanding is also important in friendship? or should I keep in contact with 'M' and somehow initiate conversations with 'M' to be his close friend? 4-I honestly don't have issue if M has multiple close friends. I am worried if not being in contact continuously will break our friendship, and we won't be close friends? 5-Should I ask them why they don't involve me in conversation