As I'm sure Jay would crop up and say, "there's no such thing as the friendzone". In all honesty, I believe this to be true. I thought that I was friendzoned by someone I'd truly fallen for a few years back, but I'd say the friendzone is more something we come up with as an excuse for them not being interested in being anything more than friends. Sure you might wish for them to be a romantic partner, but if you're only friends for that purpose it's not really a friendship. And I stand accused of having done that many a time, and now I realise it. If you stop looking for a relationship in something, it makes it easier to make new friends and meet new people. Then you might find yourself in a situation where there is mutual attraction, but it often takes time. If you wait for one person, you get hurt, as I know. If a girl tells you they'd go out with you if it weren't for this or that, it's them giving you an opportunity to break off from that pursuit and find someone else. Though girls word certain things one way, they mean something else. When you understand that, life becomes so much easier.