THE SEPTET OF FRIENDSHIP MANIFESTO By Ana Ionesei

1. If you want to make friends with someone, tell him/ her real facts about yourself. Fictions represent a required strategy in literature, but they quite harm any kind of relation between real people, even if they are literates. You have to decide if you want to gain a friend or constrain this person to fit into your fantastic scenery. If they agree- explicitly or tacitly, that allows you to go on with gratuitous lies. 2. If theres anything you are ashamed of and youd rather not mention, dont worry, a real friend ( and/ or even someone who wants/ deserves to become as such ) will not ever want to pull out the naked truth out of your mouth! He/ she will neither laugh at you if you make confessions or imediately turn you into gossip subject. 3. If you want to simply enjoy yourself by exerting your power of coertion and start telling lies for fun, think first ( as well as investigate ) if your partner is actually receptive to this playful mood of yours. He might need a friend and not SIMPLY an occasional flirt victim. 4. If you mix lies with truths when speaking about yourself WHEN NO ONE HAS ASKED YOU ANYTHING and the whole story seems credible, you definetly have literary talent, but your social impact will remain problematic. 5. If it hasnt ever slipped your mind, please note that some people are paradoxically intellectually high-developped and emotionally naive at the same time. If you hurt them, do not expect to gain their respect. Theyll only turn away from you. 6. If you like psychic violence, try some sport, play an instrument or volunteering- IT MIGHT HELP YOU! 7. If you have imaginary friends that you speak to via a world-wide-web.social.network as a diversion and/ or creative practice, without anyone to know about them, your hobby is tolerable as long as you do not delude someone ( by interacting in the name of this I.F. ) without his/ her explicit consent.