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    The Many Benefits of Having No Friends
    The Many Benefits of Having No Friends
    The Many Benefits of Having No Friends
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    The Many Benefits of Having No Friends

    By Miraya Hartley

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    This “self-help” manual of sorts will help the disaffected and the downtrodden break free from the shackles of the opinions and actions of others as Miraya recounts her own journey on the path to social freedom.
    Within this publication, Miraya has relied on her years of experience to help others build the confidence to reject the intrusion of others , which has helped her become one of the most well-adjusted and confident women in Britain today! Join her in her quest to help the masses rise up against the tyranny of friendship and share your findings with others (if, of course you have anyone left in your life after your own “social pruning!”)
    (Miraya wishes to point out that there is categorically no clinical evidence to suggest that any of her recommended techniques are, indeed effective in ridding yourself of unwanted friends but , as she puts it “You may well be successful in losing a few in the process!”)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiraya Hartley
    Release dateDec 29, 2015
    ISBN9781311739445
    The Many Benefits of Having No Friends
    Author

    Miraya Hartley

    Miraya Hartley is a well-respected member of her local Women's Institute where she tries to get away with doing as little as possible whilst maintaining her good work on behalf of others! Reluctant to give her age or her whereabouts in the United Kingdon (for fear of drawing attention to herself,) she writes for pleasure and to spread the good word in order to right the wrongs of the modern world! Get in touch at Miraya.Hartley@gmail.com

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      The Many Benefits of Having No Friends - Miraya Hartley

      The Many Benefits

      of Having

      No

      Friends

      by Miraya Hartley

      Text Copyright © Miraya Hartley 2014

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is dedicated to all those of you who lead a solitary and blissful existence - well done you!

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Friends and Technology

      Friends and Weddings

      Friends and Work

      Friends and Shopping

      Friends and School

      Friends and Socialising

      Friends and Holidays

      Friends and Money

      Friends and Family

      Friends and Food

      Friends and Neighbours

      Friends, Christmas and New Year

      In conclusion...

      Introduction

      Hello dear reader, and welcome to, what I hope shall be a very informative, nay, uplifting book, and dare I say entertain you in your hour of need. At least, I am assuming it is indeed your hour of need, or you may have just stumbled upon this little tome by mistake whilst searching for The Benefits of New-Age Healing or something in a similar vein in the Self-Help section. For yes, this is a self-help manual of sorts, although I do concede that its benefits have in no way been assessed and tested by any approved 'body' and you may just come away from it thinking Well I have no idea what that was all about but I certainly don't hate my life half as much as I did before I started reading it. If this is, indeed the case by the time you get to the end of this book, then congratulations to you! It would appear that you have inadvertently taken away a glimmer of hope that your life is by no means as miserable as it first appeared and you are, after all, a good egg.

      That's not to say that your upstanding was ever in question. This book is intended to try and bring a little happiness into the lives of those who read it; and there are a number of different categories of person, one of which you, dear reader, may fall into. You might have chosen this book because you have no friends: now I grant you, that is a fairly obvious category to be in when you consider the title, but this book is not exclusively for those who consider themselves to be friendless. Far from it; it might well be that you are considering this book as part of a research project and you are, in fact, contemplating a serious re-evaluation of your life. Maybe you are investigating the possible plus points to being 'sans amis' as the French would say (and, let's face it, the French know quite a bit about the strain of relationships with others in the name of friendship, don't they?) The other category of potential reader is one where you may just be curious as to whether there is a hidden meaning to the title; perhaps you are looking for some dark, thought-provoking piece on the state of friendship in the modern digital age, with willing social media participants frantically scrambling to acquire as many friends as possible to provide yourself with some kind of validation as to your place on this planet? Well, sorry to disappoint but take the title at face value, dear reader - this is but a simple manual, if you will, extolling the virtues of skipping freely through life without the additional baggage of having to worry about other people. In many ways, I suppose, this book is saying that it's alright and you don't need other people to get through life. In fact, life can be quite jolly without them.

      I do feel a little background might be in order before we start to prance merrily through the pages of this book hand in hand (to which I feel duty bound to point out as author and reader and most definitely NOT as friends - have you missed the whole point to the above two paragraphs already?! Do keep up!) Throughout my life I have not been, by any stretch of the imagination, what you would call a Billy no-mates. Nothing could be further from the truth, my literary chum; upon leaving secondary school my satchel was positively bursting at the seams with leavings gifts and presents from fellow classmates, all desperate to keep in touch and beseeching me to attend the après-exams party barbeque round Suzannah's in August. You may find it hard to believe, but I was completely hooked into the idea that life went better with friends, that the idea of being companion-less for the summer holiday was simply unthinkable and I would be mortified to think of myself as a loner. And so it continued into my twenties - a small gaggle of pals to keep me company and life ticked along quite nicely. So you see, I am not writing this piece from the perspective of a miserable soul at all, so you can breathe a sigh of relief that I shall not be getting all emotional on you. Rest assured, my dear reader, my aim is to liberate you from the burden of other people.

      So by now you must be asking yourself how it came to pass that I came to the realisation that life might, just MIGHT be better without any unwanted distractions from friends? You might well be thinking that there was some sort of epiphany; a moment when I decided that things were not quite as good as they might be? How perceptive and clever you are, dear reader, for coming to such a conclusion. I shan't go into too much detail but it's true that I did have a sudden realisation that things might be much nicer if I didn't have a collection of souls sucking the life-blood out of me (I like to use the analogy emotional vampire but any creature that you can think of would suffice - a leech, for instance, maybe a mosquito, but without the buzzing sound.) Anything of general annoyance - just as long as it's more of a pain having them around than not - oh, you get the general idea, I'm sure. Let's crack on, shall we?

      So, there are many advantages to having a lack of friends: now I appreciate there will be skeptics but you, dear reader, will just have to put your faith in me, if you will. In order to make this sweeping statement I shall, of course, need to furnish you with evidence and examples to prove my point; not least of which, I present Exhibit A, my own good self, thank you very much. For yes, I am living proof that one is, indeed fun as Delia Smith once noted when publishing a single person's cook book back in the 1970s (oh dear, that does age me somewhat, doesn't it? Let's just say I can remember the era but have to rely heavily on family anecdotes to fully appreciate the idiosyncrasies of the decade.) I have reached the point in my life where

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