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Friends: A Brief Operational Guide
Who are your friends?
Friends are amazing people who choose us for unknown reasons. They listen for a long time without any purpose to our complaints about health, visa center or neighbor. They can shelter you at a difficult time, find the right information for you, support you with advice, ridicule, calm or kick when necessary. They give you the most precious thing - time. Sometimes they give money, and most importantly, they give.
It makes no sense to ask them, "Why me?" Why did you choose to be friends with me? they don’t know the answer, and it’s good that they don’t. Friends are people who make us stronger. Sometimes friends can even reduce the meaninglessness of our lives. And meaninglessness is the main cause of depression, personal crises and suicide. All in all, friends are priceless.
THANKS FREE FRIENDS
1. Friends can easily bear your disappearances because they have other friends. You can tell them that you have other friends too: it's not cheating. So friendship doesn't threaten freedom.
2. Friends with you simply because you are you. Usually friends are not registered in your apartment, you do not have seven children in common or a cottage in the village of Lykhny, which you can not sell. Nothing connects you, and that's nice. That is, friends return faith in selflessness.
3. It is not very common to have sex with friends, so you can not suspect them that they have no one else to sleep with. For the same reason, friends do not accumulate sexual complaints against you, as partners do. That's extraordinarily good.
4. Friends are much more than partners that let you be yourself. They won’t be harassing you all the time with comments like “A true friend in your place...”
5. Friends are witnesses to your life. When you cry over your wedding photos in a nostalgic fit, it’s your friends who will come and remind you of what it was like when you divorced.
How to Make Good Friends
1. Normal friends are not jealous, so there can be many. Make friends. If friends are offended by this, do not accumulate touchy, accumulate normal friends.
2. Always be biased. Whether your friend is right or not, take his side. Friends are not for justice.
3. Always do anything that can strengthen a friend. If something happens to a friend, figure out how to help him. A friend is one of the best investments. Strong friends are easier to rely on.
4. If possible, don't lie. It seems that this paragraph contradicts paragraph 2. Just try it.
5. If you're being lied to, don't show that you understand. It's always destructive.
6. Know the weaknesses of your friends so you don’t get there. One awkward move and the friendship is over.
7. Your friends’ children and pets are their biggest weaknesses. Lots of people are dating friends apart from their partners because they don't like each other. But no one else meets after the words: "Get your unmannered dog away" or "Only without your Stasik."
8. Just in case, learn to apologize in advance. Otherwise, you may not have time at the right time.
9. Be careful with friends of friends. In friendship, it is very rarely possible to “think for three”. More often than not, “How can you communicate with this idiot?” If fate has brought you together with a friend of your friend, turn on your good manners to the maximum and quickly leave. “Stasik and Kukusik have been waiting for me for a long time, and you have a beautiful evening!”
10. Always come back. The value of a friend is not in any of his unique qualities, we are all ordinary people. The value of a friend is simply that he is. And for him to be, we have to go back.
PS. All these rules are necessary only for those who want to have friends, it does not concern the rest. Some people do well without friends. They simply climb the top of the tallest tree in their city 10 times a week without their pants and cry out in a subtle, unnatural voice: “How lucky I am with my husband!” In the evening, they talk to Siri. Otherwise they will not survive :)
Author: Polina Gaverdovskaya
P.S. And remember, just by changing our consumption – together we change the world!
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Source: givenrdovskaya.ru/public/essay/story1806.htm
Friends are amazing people who choose us for unknown reasons. They listen for a long time without any purpose to our complaints about health, visa center or neighbor. They can shelter you at a difficult time, find the right information for you, support you with advice, ridicule, calm or kick when necessary. They give you the most precious thing - time. Sometimes they give money, and most importantly, they give.
It makes no sense to ask them, "Why me?" Why did you choose to be friends with me? they don’t know the answer, and it’s good that they don’t. Friends are people who make us stronger. Sometimes friends can even reduce the meaninglessness of our lives. And meaninglessness is the main cause of depression, personal crises and suicide. All in all, friends are priceless.
THANKS FREE FRIENDS
1. Friends can easily bear your disappearances because they have other friends. You can tell them that you have other friends too: it's not cheating. So friendship doesn't threaten freedom.
2. Friends with you simply because you are you. Usually friends are not registered in your apartment, you do not have seven children in common or a cottage in the village of Lykhny, which you can not sell. Nothing connects you, and that's nice. That is, friends return faith in selflessness.
3. It is not very common to have sex with friends, so you can not suspect them that they have no one else to sleep with. For the same reason, friends do not accumulate sexual complaints against you, as partners do. That's extraordinarily good.
4. Friends are much more than partners that let you be yourself. They won’t be harassing you all the time with comments like “A true friend in your place...”
5. Friends are witnesses to your life. When you cry over your wedding photos in a nostalgic fit, it’s your friends who will come and remind you of what it was like when you divorced.
How to Make Good Friends
1. Normal friends are not jealous, so there can be many. Make friends. If friends are offended by this, do not accumulate touchy, accumulate normal friends.
2. Always be biased. Whether your friend is right or not, take his side. Friends are not for justice.
3. Always do anything that can strengthen a friend. If something happens to a friend, figure out how to help him. A friend is one of the best investments. Strong friends are easier to rely on.
4. If possible, don't lie. It seems that this paragraph contradicts paragraph 2. Just try it.
5. If you're being lied to, don't show that you understand. It's always destructive.
6. Know the weaknesses of your friends so you don’t get there. One awkward move and the friendship is over.
7. Your friends’ children and pets are their biggest weaknesses. Lots of people are dating friends apart from their partners because they don't like each other. But no one else meets after the words: "Get your unmannered dog away" or "Only without your Stasik."
8. Just in case, learn to apologize in advance. Otherwise, you may not have time at the right time.
9. Be careful with friends of friends. In friendship, it is very rarely possible to “think for three”. More often than not, “How can you communicate with this idiot?” If fate has brought you together with a friend of your friend, turn on your good manners to the maximum and quickly leave. “Stasik and Kukusik have been waiting for me for a long time, and you have a beautiful evening!”
10. Always come back. The value of a friend is not in any of his unique qualities, we are all ordinary people. The value of a friend is simply that he is. And for him to be, we have to go back.
PS. All these rules are necessary only for those who want to have friends, it does not concern the rest. Some people do well without friends. They simply climb the top of the tallest tree in their city 10 times a week without their pants and cry out in a subtle, unnatural voice: “How lucky I am with my husband!” In the evening, they talk to Siri. Otherwise they will not survive :)
Author: Polina Gaverdovskaya
P.S. And remember, just by changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Join us on Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki
Source: givenrdovskaya.ru/public/essay/story1806.htm
