Making New Friends: A Necessary Evil

Making new friends can be an exciting concept.
Or, most likely, it can be a tedious, annoying necessity because your current small circle of friends have decided to individually develop lives that do not entirely revolve around you.

The process of making friends is simple in theory, but unfortunately every person we meet is different.
You may be able to find some common interests with people you meet but you also run the risk of meeting people who enjoy talking about politics and therefore are not viable candidates to spend any time with.

If you find that at times your sudden desire to socialise (ie: wanting to share your sense of loneliness with someone else) does not fit the schedule of your busy, therefore unforgivable, selfish friends, then you too will need to begin the process of making new friends

To do this you need to think of friendship as an equation. Boring people are disposable and can be cut of the equation but good-looking people or people with nice cars are good solid answers and should be sought after. The formula for making new friends is simply selecting individuals to spend time with and beginning an elimination process. Eliminations should be based on important factors such as whether you can stand this person’s company, whether it will make you seem less or more attractive to others if this person is around you, and also taking into account how much money this person earns and the likelihood of you receiving any benefits from this.

A typical venture into making new friends is demonstrated below:

• Sit around at home
• Decide to make new friends
• Search Facebook
• Select someone you somewhat know
• Initiate chat
• Panic and wish to destroy all evidence when they have seen your greeting and not responded
• Receive a response
• Proceed to reminisce about every minor encounter you have every experienced with this person
  OR
  Talk entirely about mutual friends
• Try to find mutual interests, however small
• Keep conversation going by continually asking them questions
• Arrange to meet for coffee
• Quietly freak out about what to talk about at next meeting
• Get dressed in nicer clothes than usual and meet for coffee
• Say hello
• Order the same as them
• Feel off to a good start
• Talk about a funny comment they made on chat log
• Elaborate
• Talk about meeting place interior design
• Discuss
• Talk about weather
• Pause
• Mention “This is nice”
• Sip coffee
• Talk about what else you are doing today
• Look at watch
• Realise time is dragging on in this person’s company
• Try to remember what slithers of information made you decide to select them
• Long to sit by yourself
• Realise conversation has stopped completely
• Say “This is nice” again
• Quietly stress out about whether they are finding this awkward
• Realise this isn’t as nice as you had  hoped
• Start to figure out how to wrap up meeting
• Come up with an escape plan
• Excahnge polite words
• Say “We should do this again”
• Make an exit
• Vow never to do this again
• Go home
• Eat
• Sleep
• Wake up
• Eat
• Sit around at home

And so concludes another attempt at the annoying, often regrettable process of making new friends.

Repeat as necessary, until your standards become lower.

If you have found that any of the information written here has been useful to you, please don’t hesitate to avoid me.
We clearly have nothing in common.

Top 10 Reasons For Being Late To Work

1. Attempting to leave at very delicately timed latest possible minute.

2. Choosing an outfit for unrelated event happening outside of work hours.

3. Waking up to an alarm and in a sleepy daze not being able to remember what it had been set for.

4. Some form of breakfast disaster, including spillage, overcooking (burning), running out of an item or completely over-doing portion size to the point of illness.

5. Not being told about daylight savings time change by several forms of media.

6. Bad hair day.

7. Contemplating giving up all connections with outside world due to bad weather.

8. Phone out of battery – making last minute attempt to charge to at least 3% before leaving.

9. Spider found in house – sole purpose in life now to use all energy to make sure it can be seen at all times until it either leaves the house or dies.

10. Went on the internet.

10 Signs You Are Addicted To Your iPhone

1. You forget that other people use devices like ‘watches’ and ‘clocks’ to tell the time.

2. Whenever you accidentally leave it in the car, you rush back to get it as if you had locked your own child in an unattended vehicle.

3. You keep thinking you can hear your phone message tone going off during the day when it hasn’t.

4. A single tear can be seen rolling down your cheek as you discover the first crack on your iPhone screen.

5. You look up the train timetable on Safari even though it is clearly posted in front of you at the train station.

6. You keep checking to see if you have any texts or emails, even though you have not received any notifications.

7. Putting your phone on silent mode has made your vibrator obsolete.

8. You try to ‘pinch’ zoom other technology devices that do not use a touch-screen.

9. You are nonchalantly reading this using your iPhone.

10. You are now about to Google ‘nonchalantly’ on your iPhone.