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Originally Posted by Baconman
This thread is too juicy to be pushed down. Everyone has an opinion. I've found out that integrity and friendship often butt heads. True friends can agree to disagree.
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Absolutely agree! No one throws a friend away like yesterday’s garbage… Unless that person didn’t consider you to be a friend to begin with.
Far too often, and especially in the hobby, faux “friendships” are formed because that person has a need for you at the time or considers the association to be beneficial to their situation. It’s heartbreaking when you realize that was the situation all along, and it was not a true friendship. This is something that my mother used to refer to as a “fair-weather friend.”
It’s only when it becomes difficult to maintain that friendship, for whatever reason… That a true friendship is revealed. Like Slave G said, true friends are there for you, not only during the good times, but during the bad as well.
A faux friend does not have the ability to show integrity in any relationship, or to be supportive of their friends during difficult times… Because their only true alliance is to themselves.
Through the years I have been through many situations like this, and it doesn’t get any less heartbreaking each time it happens! But I am blessed to have a few true friends who are there for me, as I am for them — no matter what. I’m very grateful for them. They are very rare.