Michael said "A girl's best friend is a natural enemy of the girl's husband/boyfriend." Sadly, I think this is a wise statement. In the last couple of days, this statement was backed up with my best friend's husband's action. I am not going into the details of the story itself. Girls, we all have best friends, right? And we are all on their sides, right? No matter what, I always think of my best friend's best interest. I always put myself in her shoe and try to come up with good solutions to her problems. Even the reality that she does not want to face, I help her face it. I say things that she doesn't want to hear but needs to hear. She's done the same for me for over the last 17 years. My best friend is married to this man that I've known for 14 years now. Whenever my friend wants to talk about some issue in their relationship, I try to help her out and offer my opinions and ideas on her request. I feel like that every time I do that, her man hates me more. But hey, what else am I supposed to do?
Between them, they have love for each other, so no matter what they discuss, after all, they make up and be all happy again. On the other hand, between me and her man, as we don't have the magical glue called love, we stay as enemies. The enemy level just goes up and up and up every time they go through issues. By only doing the right thing-offering my help on request to my best friend, I am making a stronger enemy. Could I avoid this? Just ignore my friend's problem and say "It'll be fine. He is not a bad man. He doe not do anything wrong to you. It's all your imagination"? Does that make me a better person? If I did not care about my friend, I guess I can do that and avoid making an enemy, but probably I won't make a goo friend either. Even though I think I am doing the right thing, I am making a bigger enemy and I end up feeling awful! When I spend my time, effort, and money to help someone, I rather end up feeling good....:(
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