Real Friends

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. What is a person to deny you that? In reality they don't really want you as a friend. They just want to look at you and know that they have control over you and you know that, that gives them satisfaction. You must leave those people, because they are toxic in your life. If you have a friend like that, when you want to talk to them, they may not always be there for you, even in you worst times. They cannot be depended on to help you through those situations. If they deny your right to grow as person too, you can end up in a dark place. For example, there could be a job opportunity that they make you pass up on. Or if you are in a toxic relationship they may support it and manipulate you. Well, at least that’s what happened to me before I moved on.

I was right out of Harvard business school, and my best friend graduated from Duquesne university. It was his idea to become roommates and live in New York instead of me taking a chance out in LA. We worked at the same place, a technological business that sold software. At the time I had a girlfriend too. But at the time I knew for a fact that both my friend and her had a relationship behind my back. But he wouldn’t admit it and tell me to shut up anytime I brought it up. One time there was an opportunity to move up in the company, but he told me not to apply for the job. He of course got the promotion. Every time we go out however, he makes me pay for everything. My life was a mess, I was almost bankrupt, my best friend was a jerk, and my girlfriend cheated on me. However, one day it all changed.

I was in the store buying my friend an energy drink, when we were walking back to my car, a red Ferrari came out of nowhere and hit me! I took that person to court and sued them for 12 million dollars, although I had a concussion two broken legs and a broken arm, I won the case. My “friend” tried to comfort me and my “girlfriend” loved me again. The second I was healed I packed up and moved out to California to start a new life.