In today's ever so hardening world, the true meaning of friendship has been pushed to the wayside, as so many other things.
On the first forum that I ever participated in, during daily conversation, a lost cousin and I were re-united. We began what I felt was a new friendship, only to find out that she was quite the user.
The owner of the forum also became a friend, or at least I thought. But is was a very short lived mind game and there never was freindship involved on their part.
One was so messed up on very hard pain medication for chronic pain and the other loved to tip the bottle. My cousin was the greatest disappointment, as she began using people to simply make her self better liked by the staff. I should have caught on quicker when she told me that she and her brothers and sister had been totally pushed out of her life because everyone was out to get her, and how she trampled on the family name laughing all the while.
Reality so many times is very upsetting and digs deeply in those hearts who are faced with it's realization.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo
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