few good friends in my life..

Philippines
May 12, 2010 8:01am CST
i have many friends that's for sure, and sure you do also. but for sometime in my life, 2 years ago, (it was the most devastating year of my life) i had this kind of situation where it occurred to me to take my own life. you could not imagine how i devastated and hurt i was. you know what hurts more than being slapped or robbed? it's the word "betrayal"..but somehow, days, months, and years passed i'm now okay and got over with the crisis that i had. my point is, during those days, i learned who my real friends are. we can have many friends but truth is only few good friends will be with us in times of adversities.
3 responses
@1anurag1 (3576)
• India
12 May 10
i think the word few is enough when you are talking about real friends. no matter if you have friends in a big number but they are not good to you. i have many friends but most of them are not very good to me. but still i would say that i have some better and i am happy with them.
• Philippines
13 May 10
you're right. it doesn't matter if we just have few friends as long as their real. what do we do with so many friends anyway, party here, party there? doesn't make sense.
• Philippines
13 May 10
they're real rather.
• Philippines
12 May 10
YEAH!.. You are extremely right. We could have so much friends but the truth is only few of those cares for you. Only few of those would stick with you until the very end. Some would go at some points but the people who love you will always stay. I love my friends. I always try to make them feel that they are important in my life.
• Philippines
12 May 10
And anyway, my advice is if you think that you have found your true friends, then never EVER let them go. =)
• Philippines
13 May 10
thank you for your advice. i have my true friends with whom i can be my real self, no pretensions and so on..i can be a b***h sometimes, but they just laugh at it. but there are also times, when no matter how i want to stay cool about a particular situation, i just cant. and i end up yelling at them sometimes, it's just one of the few things that can gradually ruin friendship. so what i do, i always say sorry. i'm glad to have them in my life, so even if i'm a b**** sometimes i also try to make them feel so important to me. anyway, they have their share too of being b*****s, but that's the beauty of our friendship. amidst our differences, we always meet half way and that's what matters most.
• Philippines
12 May 10
i agree with you yong..we could have many friends but genuine friends are hard to find that's why we must treasure them.. i, too, had been betrayed by a friend, not once, twice but stupid of me, i let that friend betrayed me for the 3rd time..it is perhaps the most devastating thing that had ever happened to me..you see, that friend is also a relative..and what hurts the most is that despite what i did for that friend, always lending a hand, saving that friend from being fired at work (twice!), protecting when that friend was attacked by other people..he still betrayed me..betrayed me so deep, i was literally shaking for days in anger and disappointment! i have never felt more hatred for anyone then..(second time betrayal..but i still gave him another chance after some months)..and then came this last and final, ultimate betrayal..which now involved my work, and personal life too..i did not let it pass..i confronted him and put and end to the 18 years friendship..i'm over and done with the friendship..i have real friends, ..thank God for that..and i hope i'll have them for the rest of my lifetime..
• Philippines
13 May 10
hahahha oh my...once or twice is enough. but third? no, you must be a very good and compassionate friend to him or simply as you said , stupid..oh my, how could he had done that to you for the third time and why did you let him.? well, past is past.. the only consolation is that,you learned that even relatives can sometimes betray you. and (true)friends who are not blood related to us are much better than them. anyway, its not your loss, it's his. he lost a friend, a good friend, and that is you.