blog #8

Sometimes people who you think are your “friends” turn out to be far from that. In my opinion, everyone has at least one fake friend. When I say fake friend, I mean a person who pretends to be your friend but talks smack about you behind your back. I once had a “friend” in my life who I thought was a brother to me. We were like partners in crime; always together whether if it was on the soccer field or at school, we would always be joking around. As time went on, I found out from another friend that he was talking smack about me behind my back so I confronted him about it and he tried denying it but I already knew the truth so I just walked away and we never spoke again.  After that day it completely changed the way I saw him. It just goes to show that in the end, the only people who will always be there is your family. Now I have learned to choose my friends wisely; I prefer to have a small group of close friends who I can be myself around, rather than knowing the whole world trying to fit in by changing the way I am just to satisfy their needs.  People tend to walk in and out of our lives nowadays, but it is our choice on who we decide to keep in our lives forever. This whole experience made me a better person because it made me pull my guard up on who I let walk into my life and even when they’re in my life I still have my guard up because I never know what can happen; such as being back stabbed or betrayed or whatever. It is not a very good feeling so It Is something I would never want to do to anyone.