Review: Perfect read for the loner in all of us!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
I was always a very socially active person. I have thousands of friends around the world and have always been able to feel comfortable regardless of who I have spoken to. I have friends who are middle class, upper class and lower class and have barely enough money to make ends meet, and I have friends who are quite literally celebrities who are very well known  and have the best of what they need and want. With that being said, I will say that in the last five or six years, I started to become somewhat anti-social when it came to making new friends, or even being able to stay in contact with older friends. Sure, I speak to people via social media sites and places like that, but conversation outside of the realm of social media has basically stopped altogether. I think I may speak on the phone less than twice a month. I just stopped keeping up with actual physical contact with people. Being able to confide in people is not something that is easy for me to be able to do. I tend to not trust people enough to do that. Even with people I have known for many years, even they are kept at a distance because I just don’t feel comfortable inviting them into my personal life and exposing the most intimate of details with them. This book is a definite eye opener for me, and I am sure it would greatly benefit those who want to be able to reach out to people and make friends and just don’t yet have the confidence or social skills to be able to do so yet. When I started to read this book, How to Make Friends: 13 Ways I Used To Turn Myself From An Unpopular Loner to Having A Great Circle of Friends That I Love, Trust and Can Depend On by J.D. David, I was kind of in shock with how direct the author was with the way different situations were described within the pages. I don’t think there was a single chapter where I did not think of someone I know, including myself! We all know someone who is socially awkward and could really use some help with being able to make friends and this is the right book to show them so they can begin on a path to a new found happiness in their lives. As for me, I am uninclined to be socially active because I choose to be so, but if I ever decide to get back out into the world again, I will definitely reference this book when I start to head out! Who knows, maybe that will be sooner rather than later now that I’ve read this and am actually starting to think about how great it was to just hang out with friends and have fun!