Throughout the years, I begun to reconcile my thoughts on what the term of a friend really was. Finding an individual to whom would be always by my side and has pure intentions in the masses of people I met throughout my journey in life was tiresome. Everyone seemed to have a point of expiration, in which their pleasant endeavors as a friend would fail. I felt as if finding a true friend was like picking a fresh fruit out of an expired batch while blindfolded.

It sickens me today to take into consideration that everyone can and will come and go as they please. There is no delay for someone to just get up and leave or stop being a pleasurable friend to you. Honestly, most people that you take the pleasure in meeting are not your close companions. Yet, nothing but a mere acquaintance who will leave. Our lives are nothing more than a gathering of phony confidants. Perhaps a masquerade, if you will.

These "friends" provide us with an exterior picture of beauty, trust, and a source of happiness through the various masks that they wear. Although, when they remove this alluring disguise; they're ugly and do not have the intentions that you believed they would. Friends do not hurt other friends. Nor do they make them feel as if they should change their ways to coincide with some else's personality and what they believe is right.

If you have to dance around within your own thoughts trying to form some sort of explanation as to how they are actually a good friend after they made you feel uncomfortable for the eighth time. I can tell you right now they are toxic. You are voluntarily sipping from a chalice of poison believing you will get fine wine; which sadly you will not.

Hearing from numerous people that your companion is spreading lies and assumptions behind your back. Or even discussing your flaws that did not harm them in any way, for instance making a mockery of the attire you wear. That individual is just one of the numerous forms of toxic substances that you ingest for long periods of time before your one sided bond inevitably breaks.

Those who act like they care so much, but love to see you fall are the most dangerous kind of venom that can taint your life. They will make you feel comfortable and provide you with so much "effort" in building you up. Then, you reach the peak of your happiness and have greater achievements than them. Their true self comes finally out and will treat you wrongly out of jealousy or envy.

You will come across an assortment of individuals who act in this kind of harmful manner. Do not let their toxins flow throughout your body and destroy your happiness, well-being, and overall life. Some people are disposable and sometimes that's for the better. This is how life lessons on friendship are formed.