Have you ever have friends that you have known so long who turn their back to you? Turn their backs to you without a reason and suddenly? Turn their backs to you for they rather hear another person’s words than yours? Listening to a person who isn’t that close to them and believing it when they say they know you better? How painful it feels to be thrown out of your own group of friends due to a new comer who faking her friendliness? Why do such people exist on this planet?
I have been through this situation a few times. I have friends who are two-face. Friends who are manipulative enough to use me. If I fight, I lose it all. My only way out was let go of that group of friends and move on to a new group. After moving on to a new group, that particular friend would come into my new group and it is all back to phase one.
To say I’m lucky is also hard. Those that turn their back on me, some of them actually realise how they are fooled. But for me, I have made a mistake once of accepting them back as good friends but to be betrayed another round. The hurt, the pain that comes with it doesn’t just go off overnight. The pain would be there and it scars you for it would be so hard to trust another person again. It makes you more careful of your friends. Lucky me, I didn’t turn paranoid. I know a person who is so paranoid that issues are created overnight due to his/ her own thinking. Thinking that there is something the other person isn’t happy about when there isn’t.
I was close to depression due to this but I’m happy to say that I have overcome it and move on. It isn’t easy and hard to just forget bout it. It haunts you. Truthfully, I have no confidence with friends I just made. No offense but it is hard to just trust fully that person especially a girl. They are the one I always have problems with. I find hanging out with guys are easier than girls. Maybe due to topic of conversation. So far I’m 100% sure of only one good friend here in KL. Other than her I have 3 other friends back in Taiping. In KL I think the last person I really trust would be 2 years back after i found my so-called “Mummy”.
After that, I can be close to anyone but I can’t fully rely on that person. I can go out and have fun with them. I do believe that they also feel the same for we can hang out but our character and life-style are different. The way we think are also different. So meeting once a while is just nice. When Merlye went to New Zealand, I was lost for she was my cpompanion in uni. A lot approach me to be friends with me when she was away but all end up with me being hurt.
I was an easy target to be manipulated. I’m always used as a driver. But I’m dumb enough to do it till last year. Sometimes I do it for a good cause but since they don’t remember, its okay with me. When you are being manipulated, yo feel being caged for you want to fight it but it isn’t easy. No matter how you try to free yourself, you would end up in deeper troubles. At times, problems which has nothing to do with you would suddenly involve you. I have enough of it. I want to be out of whatever problems there is. I don’t know what they are but I want out. Whoever that doesn’t allow me to, they are one heck of a friend that I don’t think is worth to call them as friend.
Friends are friends but know your limits. You want to care for a person, there are limits too. Don’t overdo it just to make yourself look good. Getting self-pity from friend’s friend to make friend is actually a pity. You get their pity but not respect. For the rest of your life, they would pity you and not respect you. Think that you are helpless and need pity. If a person needs pity to go on in life, it really is pityful. Using all sad issues just to get pity. Once can’t get any pity, start to self-praise themselves that how good they are to a certain friend to win the friendship. If I ever know there is a person like that, i really pity them. And if that person use me like that, sorry la. End of the friendship.
There are so many kind of friends around. I’m glad that I found some that I can really treasure and also rely on. I can say that Merlye has always been there for me even when she is away in New Zealand, Louisa who would go the way for me, my so-called Mummy who is in Malacca now. Louisa is a friend that is hard to find also for I actually lost contact with her for half a year but she came to help me when I was at the lowest time and when my other friends turn their back to me. For now, here in KL i know i can always rely on Merlye and Louisa. Thanks for always being there for me and supporting me.