How To Make A Friend In Three Days Or Less

Most all of us are lonely deep inside.  We think that no one does, can or will really like us.  The surprize is that everyone feels that way, even Mr. Popularity or Ms. Beautiful.  This book teaches you not only how to make a friend in three days or less, but how to make literally anyone your friend.  There are no gimics or tricks, simply the honest truth about creating genuine friendships,  friendships that last a lifetime.  Anyone can have so many friends they will have to hire an auditing firm just to count them.
 
 

 It was a warm August afternoon.  The boy stood staring out the window.  His faded jeans and mended shirt spoke of the hours of fun he had shared in the sun with his friends.  Friends that were now thirty miles away.  Now to you and me, thirty miles is a short ride in the car, but to this eight year old boy, it was forever.  Never would he see his friends again or walk down the familiar halls of school.  Never would they cheer him on to victory or mourn with him in his defeats.

 The boy watched as his younger brother and sister ran across the lawn to the two boys waiting next door.  One of the boys was his age, the other slightly older.  Excited laughter and ecstatic arm waving signaled the beginning of new friendships. 

 But the boy at the window was transfixed.  Riveted to the floor, he watched the scene unfold.  His heart cried to be let out, to join the others and frolic in the soothing sun.  But the fear of meeting someone new, of making a new friend, gripped his throat and choked his cries as a single tear slid from his eye and gently carved a path down his cheek.

 I was not much different than most of you.  I was that boy afflicted with "Afraidus Paralysis."  That paralyzing fear that prevents you and me from meeting the new people in the house across the street, saying hello to the beautiful girl who sits next to you in Biology or calling someone up to share an evening at the movies.  We all have it, some more than others, but everyone has felt "it."

 I struggled with it for twenty-two years before I stumbled across the keys to controlling it.  You will notice that I didn’t say I eliminated the feeling, I just learned to control the fear and make many new friends in spite of it.  Now my list of friends stretches from movie producers and directors in Beverly Hills, to ranchers and farmers in Idaho, from the rich and famous to the poor and humble.  I believe Will Rogers when he said, "There are no strangers, just friends I’ve never met.  I never met a man I didn’t like."