“While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow”. -Thoreau
Friendships had never seemed to work with me. I knew even at the age of eleven that friends would come and go. However, being a naïve fifth grader at the time, there were still many concepts that I failed to grasp. Most of the concepts being right in front of me. For instance, betrayal and toxic relationships. All my life, I had been relatively shielded from these kinds of friendships. Don’t get me wrong. I knew many people who were toxic, or bullies.I understood that would always be the case and that there was nothing I could do to change that. Still, nothing could have…show more content… We did everything together. The irony of this friendship was that the year before, we were bitter enemies because of a petty conflict. So petty, in fact, that I don’t even remember it. Somewhere in the summer, something had shifted. She began to slowly go from being a great friend, to someone I couldn’t count on as much. Again, being naïve, I still failed to listen to my family’s constant tangent of “She’s not a good friend” or “You can do better than that”. If I had only listened then, as much as I hate to admit it, I could have avoided the entire thing. Plus, a message my dad had always taught me was that “you are at school to learn. Not really for friends, or drama. To learn”. Unfortunately, it took me a long time to live by it. Like, three years. Or, of course, he could have just said that to make sure I get out of the house and go to…show more content… But, the sad reality of it is that most things you hear about friendship, are lies. Friendship isn’t easy. It shouldn’t be hard either. It should be a mix between the two. I’m thankful that after the whole ordeal with her, I became best friends with the person she revealed the secret to. Not because I wanted to keep her from spreading it further, but because we actually had a lot in common, and worked well together. My newly developed friendship was, in my opinion, one of the best things that happened in my life. Not only that, but it’s my first friendship that has lasted for so long without all the
