When Friendship is Falsified and Abused
Posted on Monday 28 March 2016
When
Friendship is Falsified and Abused
By Apolinario Villalobos
Friendship can be tagged with related words
such as congeniality, hospitality, love, trust, intimacy and many more synonyms
that go with positive relationship between two and among many people.
The problem with some people is that they
do not have the common sense of assessing their capacity to manifest friendship
to the point of falsifying it, so that at the end, they feel bad if they think
their congeniality has been abused. At the start, they should have restrained
themselves from giving hints to others that their being “accommodating” is
limitless.
Manifestation of friendship may vary
according to the degree of closeness and trust that one would like to show to
their friends. In this regard, some friends may just be good for drinking
sprees, some as buddies who can be trusted even with personal problems, some as
sources of financial support, some as “escorts” in elitist occasions or
ballroom dancing and some may be fortunately treated as best friends forever or
“bff”.
On the other hand, some people abuse the
friendship shown to them, especially, on the aspect of finances. They assume
that because of friendship, they can always borrow money from their rich
friends without even the courtesy of an excuse if they failed to pay back on
time, though most often, they really have no intention of doing such. Some
also, practically exploit their “friends” whose social status is lesser than
theirs, by treating them as some kind of servants whose usefulness is good in
doing errands, driving them around, cooking for them during special occasion at
home, etc, but never brought along to discriminatory parties of elite colleagues.
There are “true friends”, no doubt about
that, but we should try to understand the extent of the sincerity in such kind
of relationship. We should not feel bad, therefore, if we find out that we are
left out during some occasions, or we do not know some goings on, finding them
out only in photos posted on facebook. In other words, as already
aforementioned, a person has a “fitting role” to play in the life of his or her
friends depending on their need, and the former’s skill or character. That is a
fact that should be accepted, for a Biblical legend says that even God has His own
“chosen people”….His “true and trusted friends”….but who, at the end, betrayed
His trust!
Nevertheless, one sure occasion that all
kinds of friends can really bond together is the school reunion during which,
even “enemies” during school days embrace, kiss and shed tears of excitement
and joy that overshadow boxing and kicking bouts, spats and hair pulling
incidents in the past!
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