Lately the world has become scarce with real people. Of all things to become dead and gone the real ones had to dry up like the water in a desert.
I have come to realize that all of the great people I have continuously thought of as friends were actually NOT real. Faker than turkey burgers at Mc Donalds. And I'm sure theyve thrown in some of those once in a blue moon. So I decided to write my first blog about the real and....well the not so real. Some people like to just say fake, but I prefer to call them fictional.
So how do you know when your real friends have managed to jump the cliff and have been mistakenly replaced by some super droid machine person? Well thats what I'm here to discuss. Who knows you may just find yourself surrounded by aliens come to take over the world in their quest to dominate every planet in the universe.
Reality #1
Your friends always have something to do when you call.
You just get in the house after a long and depressing day and you feel pretty low. You decide that you havent talked to your bestie in a while and have decided that you could use his/her pep talk right now so you pick up the phone and dial their number. They answer the phone with somewhat of a...suprised tone. "Hello?" and you respond with a confused "hello??" as if you dont know why they sound suprised to hear from you. But you quickly get over that and shoot into how terrible your day was. After getting about halfway through your tale you notice that the entire time that "friend" was either in a completely different world or constantly being inturrupted by someone or something.
At this point your friend has reached phase 1 of the fake friend syndrome and has yet to realize that they are starting to...not necessarily fall, but slip.....of the wagon. If your friend has shown signs of this phase its best for you to talk to your friend, because most likely at this early stage, they can be saved.
Reality #2
Everytime you wanna hang out, you gotta go to their house.
Two days ago I talked to my friend Yani on the phone. She actually texted me about coming over her house a few minutes earlier. When she asked me that I thought about it and realized "I ALWAYS GO TO YOUR HOUSE!!" and after that I exploded. She calmed me by telling me that I didnt have to catch an attitude and that she would come over my house instead. The reason why she never came to my house was that it was "a long walk".
Can someone explain to me why I have to go there if its such a long walk? If your friend has a reason to not come over whenever you invite them, its time you do what you can to save that relationship. Anyone who is too lazy to make time for you is NOT worth you making time for them. If you can convince them that what theyre doing is way unfair to you, then you may have a chance at working it all out and keeping your friend. If not then you know whats next.....
Final Reality
They dont show up.....
If you plan an outing with friends and they agree to go with full excitement, do you not expect them to be there? Well then you are exactly right for believing that. Anyone who says theyll go with you somewhere is a friend unless they are there for some other person (in which case a lot of times youll already know or have a hunch by the end of the night).
But YOU! Your story is completely different. You call your friends and say "hey lets go to the movies!" Theyll all give you their answers. Yes, NO, Maybe so. But the fictional friends that always happen to exist in every group of friends will say yes ecstatically. They will go so far as to ask questions like who's going?, where is it?, what time? so much that youll begin to believe that they will ACTUALLY SHOW UP!
But then when you get there and your sitting in that theater with about 2 or 3 people you look to your left and right and see that so and so didnt even come. And while we all know that things happen, a real friend would have called or texted or sent you some type of notification cancelling your plans. At this point these people need to be cut off.
While some of these people may have been your best friend you know that what your reading is the real deal. These people do all they can to seem good and wonderful but in reality, when you pull back the layers, theyre actually the farthest thing from it. A lot of people will read this and a light will click on in their minds, and theyll figuratively look around them and see that there are people in their cliques that are exactly like what I have described. So then theyll begin to cut those people out of their lives. But when they start hacking away the excesses of their group theyll start to get scared and make excuses for this person and that. Because at the end they see that more people should be cut than they knew and they dont want to be alone.
Because the truth is.........you have no real friends.
