How to get yourself out of that "friendship zone"

Being friend zoned by the object of one's love can be so devastating, more so, emotionally. It feels like being locked up in a cage in the middle of a hot sandy desert. You can't help thinking about them every second of every minute of every hour. You've fantasized a million times how you'd marry them in future, have two pairs of identical twins and live happily-ever-after in a spacious mansion in a high- end estate. But from the look of things, you probably will never live out your fantasy. It's however, not something to worry about because the world has a population of over seven billion people and therefore chances are high that there are many others with whom you are sailing in the same boat.

One of my university lecturers and my good friend has always told me that, every kind of relationship starts with friendship and is sustained by friendship. Be it a romantic, platonic, business or a casual one. And I am starting to think that there is some truth in her assertion.