pretending to do the 40hr famine to get friends

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all the people i know at my youth group are doing the 40hr famine, i dont want to actually do it im just pretending so that they like me , im not going to collect money im just making a page so they can see it and like me so i get some friends

i wish i had friends so badly

What's a 40 hour famine?
And I know how you feel. I often don't praticipate in the activities my peers do because I don't want to do it and am scared that they'll make fun of me or be rude to me. Plus I can't read joking behavior so what if they don't mean to hurt my feelings but it comes off that way? Idk, I want friends but all the kids at my school are stoners/rednecks/preps and I don't fit in to any of those. Then people complain that I'm not social enough. Why be social with people who are nasty and treat people badly. I know they're not all like that but the majority are.

If you actually gonna do this just be sure to drink LOT of water and have something that catch your interest to do, else it risk to be very stressful and hard on the body.


Cannot say it is a best idea to do so, but implication in a group will get you notice by the member of the group that will participate also, so might actually lend some result. But hope you know what you are doing and not doing it blindly.

What are the reason behind this 40hr famine, you said to collect money but for what ?

im not actually doing the famine, im saying that im doing the furniture famine as an individual over the weekend of the 20th to the 22nd of august its to raise money for hungry people in other countries, but im not collecting any money or actually doing it, im pretending so that the people in my (very catholic) youth group will want to be friends with me even though i have opposing beleifs

You shouldn't do something if you don't want to. If they can't accept you for who you are they won't be friends. I don't think not joing the famine thing will make them dislike you anyway. In a way isn't it kinda worse if you lie to them?

I understand what you mean about wanting friends I feel the same and I was glad when I found this site a few days ago. It made me realise that I'm not the only one feeling that way

I Did it ever year of high school, I'm actually quite good at it.

I didn't make many friends that I wouldn't have already known from school, though. Try checking out some of the in school groups anyways, famine or no.

Don't lie. Either do it or don't, but be honest. You pick: shame and exile, or "40 hour famine" (whatever that is).

Do you want to be the sort of person who goes around lying to make people like them?