Article: If your friend is a danger to you or your health, screw social etiquette and end it immediately. If your friend is manipulative/hurtful or you're afraid he or she will have a violent reaction to your friendship's end, just hit the brakes now. No conversation needed. Stop taking calls and texts, unfriend the person on Facebook, and don't show up in places where you know that person will be. If you're in danger, notify authorities (a boss, school officials, the police) immediately. This is no longer a friendship worth handling alone. Let the friendship fade naturally. Friends go to different schools, move to different towns, or gravitate to different activities, and they start hanging out with other people. It's quick, painless, and usually mutual. To gracefully put a friendship out of its misery (or let it wilt, if that sounds too harsh), you should: Keep your conversations in safe, shallow territory. Keep all of the emotional, personal baggage in your own bedroom and out of their house. Lose touch with them. Don't make as big an effort to call or text. Skip a phone call or two. Don't overdo it, of course. But if you're not friends, you don't need to be in constant communication. Decline invitations to chill. As the distance between you grows, stop spending time with the ex-friend. They'll stop calling eventually, once they get the idea. If you need to, cut it off quickly. Do you want straightforward results? Be a straight shooter. Rather than leaving the person guessing why you aren't talking to him or her anymore, set aside a few minutes to talk to them. If you're just not interested in hanging out with someone, this may be a bit extreme. But if they are toxic to your life, old pals, or otherwise damaging your life you need to own up to your decision and tell them honestly. This way you can hightail it out of there when the conversation is over, or if things get heated (which they hopefully will not). Coffee shops and public parks are good choices. Cut right to the chase - "I don't think we should hang out anymore" is about as blunt, and effective, as it gets. Don't throw blame or talk trash about them. For example, instead of accusing the person of drinking too much, go with "I need time to focus more on my studies and less on partying." Make sure they understand your position too. It's important to let your friend tell you what he or she thinks about the situation. However, it should not change your decision. You spent a lot of time thinking about this. Don't undo it all in thirty seconds. You may also be tempted to apologize for ending the friendship. But unless you've done something wrong, there is no reason to be sorry for choosing to cut ties with someone. Just get it done and get out of there. No matter how you end a friendship, the person is likely to try to get in touch once or twice. Let the person know if they are still welcome to talk to you or not. If you are not crystal clear about your expectations, then don't end things until you are. If you're wishy-washy now, both of you will likely slip into old habits later. If you are willing to keep in touch with this person, make it clear what kind of communication is cool with you. You don't have to ignore someone's very existence just because you don't want to hang out anymore. If you never want to speak to your former friend again, warn them of the consequences if they don't listen. And, like any other promise, make sure you follow through if they do.
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Cut off toxic friendships cold turkey. Don't hang out together. End the friendship in person, directly. Choose a quiet, but still public, spot to talk. Let them know your concerns politely, firmly, and quickly. Keep the conversation focused on you. Give the other person a chance to talk. Leave once you've said your piece. Establish clear boundaries for the end of the relationship.
Article: If after tapping Google Play Store you find yourself in the music section, be sure to exit it. To do so, look to the upper left corner of your Google Play screen, and tap on the three horizontal lines. Then, look to the upper right corner and tap on the search icon. Enter Calls Blacklist in the space provided, then tap the search icon next to the search bar. Various apps matching your search criteria will appear. Make sure to select this specific app, as other ones with similar names might come up. Tap on the app, and wait for it to finish downloading. Once the app is installed, tap on the green Open button. After the app launches, you'll see a white circled Plus icon in a blue bar. Tap on it. That's the way to add numbers and contacts you wish to block. You'll have the option of selecting a number From Contacts, Log, Manually, and From Messages Log. From Contacts will take you to your entire contacts list. Log will take you to the numbers with which you've interacted within a set timeframe (each phone is different about how long it'll retain numbers that weren't stored). From Messages Log will take you to all of the messages you have on your phone. You can select a contact from a message. For example, if you'd like to block a number that is registered in your phone as a contact, simply tap on From Contacts. Then, mark off the contact from the provided list. Look to the bottom right side of your screen. Then, tap Add. You will no longer receive messages from this contact. Repeat the above two steps for any Add category (Log, Manually, From Messages Log). You can remove a number from the blocked list anytime by tapping on the number, and then tapping Delete.
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Launch the Google Play Store. Tap on Store Home. Select Calls Blacklist - Call Blocker. Tap on Open. Tap on the Plus icon. Select the category where your unwanted number can be found. Tap on Add.
Article: Depending on the occasion, a more information or humorous prayer might be just as appropriate as a solemn one. If you're sitting down informally but still want to throw up a thanks, go with a classic rhyming prayer of school cafeterias and summer camps: Example: Good food, good meat, good God, let's eat. Example: Lord, we know without a doubt, you'll bless this food as we pig out. Example: Bless this food before us set, which needs all the help that it can get. If you've just seated yourself at a table with a crew that likes to imbibe, celebrate the spirits with this classic: Example: May your glass be ever full, may the roof over your head be always strong, and may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. Example: When I dream of Heaven, I dream of the past / Surrounded by good friends raising a glass. Eating at an English professor's house? Say grace by quoting everyone's favorite Transcendentalist. His poem "Grace" reads: For each new morning with its light, / For rest and shelter of the night, / For health and food, for love and friends, / For everything Thy goodness sends, / We offer thanks. Amen. Thanks and meals are directly linked in ASL, whose sign for "thanks" involves moving the hand from the mouth forward, displaying a flat palm. This is traditionally used before a meal in place of a blessing, and as an invitation of both thanks and eating. Learning simple blessings from cultures not your own can be an interesting way of offering perspective and gravity to the meal. Some examples: Japanese: itadakimasu (I am receiving) Latin American: To those who have hunger, give bread. To those who have bread, give hunger for justice. Ghanaian: Earth, when I am about to die I will lean on you. While I am alive, I will depend on you. Southeast Asia: This food is the gift of the whole universe. May we be worthy to receive it. May the energy in this food give us the strength to transform our unwholesome qualities into wholesome qualities.
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Go with a cafeteria prayer. Offer a drunkard's toast. Quote Emerson. Learn the American Sign Language (ASL) blessing. Use aphorisms from around the world.