I for one have had to learn my lessons from so many experiences and when they say experience is the best teacher, they were right. I am not one to have so many friends due to my upbringing. We lived in a quiet community when I was growing up and with school and all, I hardly got time to even make friends around aside the ones I had in school and my siblings and other cousins. Also, being a book lover, I barely had time to socialize and my parents had to even beg me to come out of my room.
As I grew up and went to high school and university, I was forced to socialize because I was literally in the midst of people and I didn’t really have a choice. Through these years I spend in schooling, I made some pretty good friends who have been by my side for as long as I can remember. These friends of mine have supported me on days I didn’t even believe in myself. If there’s one thing I never thought would happen to me, it’s my friend switching up on me. I don’t have my friends and so the one or two friends I have ate people I hold in high regards. I could go to heaven and hell for my friends because why not?
But then, all of a sudden, this friend of my started acting funny. This was someone I thought would be my friend forever because we’ve actually been through it. It started from little disrespectful comments, to petty fights over nothing at all and no sort of effort being invested in our friendship. I understood that all these are part of the journey and so I decided to hold on to my dear friend. But as time went by, it got exhausting, I couldn’t continue that way anymore. I won’t lie, I was very hurt and I would use any opportunity I got to rant about it.
Soon enough, it was more than clear that this person wasn’t actually ready to put in effort to make our friendship work so I also had to let it go. It was hard, but it had to be done. Not everyone is meant to walk the road with us, some people stop along the road while others go with us till the very end. This experience taught me that at the end of the day, not everyone stays and that doesn’t mean that those that left are bad people. Everyone has his own reasons for doing stuff so just learn to appreciate the experiences you got to have with these people and move on with your life. Life doesn’t end with losing one friend because everyday, we meet new people and life goes on. This is a lesson I had to learn the hard way and today, I live with an open mind ready for anything.
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Not every friendship / relationship works that's certain. I have also learnt that in a pretty hard way.
That’s right
I think switching up on someone is actually one of the painful things to do so for it to be done to you, I’m so sorry. But I’m glad about the things you’ve learned from this situation.
Such is life.
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