Article October 4, 1969 Issue

"Why don't I have friends?"

JOHN H. WILLIAMS

Some people are disturbed because they have few, if any, friends. They want to be friendly but find little response from others. They ask themselves, "Why don't I attract friends? What is there about me that causes others to ignore me or pass me by?"

The usual answer is that a friendless person is too self-centered or too shy or doesn't love enough, but this answer is of little comfort if it does not also tell one how to correct these traits and thus attain companionship.

The right solution is for one to learn and demonstrate the nature of his true selfhood as a child of God. This will enable him to express impartially God-given joy and unselfed love, which are independent of human association. With this more complete sense of man he will attract the right friends.

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