Friends

Friends, kawan, 朋友, and so on. Regardless of whatever country you are from, Friends will appear definitely infront of your eyes. As the old saying goes, "No Man Is An Island", it nearly impossible that   there are people living without the feeling of being accepted by other people whom we call friends.

Despite what I've said, the problems lie in the ones you call friends. Nothing is perfect, everything that you may find perfect has it flaws, just like this cruel term called "friendship". I have friends too, but do they think of me as a friend? Will I get betayed by them? These our common questions I ask myself until I came to a conclusion, to not fully trust anyone so that when they cast me aside or betray me, I won't feel that much pain as I've already prepared fpr it. Yes, you may think I'm paranoid, I'm a complete pessimist, but what I speak is from experience and the advice handed down to me from my parents and friends.

Back to the relevant topic, in this world, friends are seperated into 2 completely different types of friends, Fake Friends and Real Friends. The sad part is that the number of fake friends in this world highly outnumber Real Friends. Furthermore, it is hard to tell the difference between the fake friends and the real friends.

Before I venture on any further, let me explain what are these 2 dfferent types of friends.

Fake Friends: Ones that act all of friendly infront of you eyes, and due to the fact that we are blinded by what we like to hear, we don't put a second thought to what they are doing to us behind our backs, or our just using us to gain benefits, never have they ever spared a thought about your well being. A classic example, your fake friend says you look beautiful today, but behind your back, it's a completely different story! When you go to your group of fake friends, if you listen closely, some of them will actually whisper, "Oh my gawd, he's here!" or "I think we should leave before she comes!". Some people tend to deny the existence of these malicious creatures, but news flash, they exist and live right next to you.

True Friends: These are the angels that exist in this planet. They are the ones who support you and aren't afraid of hurting your feelings when what you are doing is completely wrong or when you are being a completely different character. Furthermore, they will never talk bad behind your back and will be there when it really counts. DO NOT MISTAKE THESE PEOPLE AS THE BULLIES THAT ACTUALLY ARE OUT TO GET YOU. Yes, having these friends are the best things anyone can ask for in this cruel and imperfect world.

In this world, we can never really tell who are our real or fake friends. Most of the times, we are often blinded by what we see and hear. As long as we here a compliment, we just throw any second thoughts out the window. In my opinion, we are thrown into a mind-boggling battle field where we will never know who are our allies or enemies, your closest "ally' may already have a knife behind your back, and we will never know till we turn around. Sadly, by the time we do, it is already too late.

For some additional info, some people see friends in a different way, which to me is quite cool. Friends make you feel inferior to them, and due to cover the holes, we work doubly hard. However, despite the amount of effort we put in, we can never actually fill the hole. It's ironic, we know it's impossible, but we still do it anyway, maybe this is why we keep evolving, the whole meaning of what evolution truly is.

Well to conclude, Friends exist as real and fake friends, it is up to you to decide on who lies which category. So, I urge you to go and rethink, and rethink hard, on who are your friends.

It doesn't matter how fake friends treat you or vice versa, but remember to treat your real friends right, because losing fake friends are like losing garbage, but losing real friends are like losing treasure. <3