What "Price" friends - Have you found that out yet ?

Question

Let's look at the price you have to paid for your stamp of approveal. As the result of doubting yourself you have gone along with the crowd, laughing with them, dressing like them, and finally, sinning with them.
And the more you have gone along with the crowd, the more you have had to wrestle with the anxiety that is the constant companion of guilt; but instead of seeing yur anxiety and guilt as the result of having sold out to your friends, you feel it as a fear of losing the friends that you need so desperately.
And as you become prouder and guiltier, you have required your friends to be more corrupt for relief from guilt as you dig a little deeper for each new set of low-life liars to support you/

Common on now, let hear from you - tell us your sorry stories and miseries that perchance we can be shaken out of these stupor !

Answer 1

the price was too high for me! Had a gal friend that had had some troubles and got into a car accident and was drunk.....she faked it out (it was not a bad accident) said she didn't have her license on her and gave my name as hers.....she has not talked to me in years I'm not a good enough friend to have covered for her....I could not believe it! She wanted me to take the rap for her as she would of lost her drivers license....my sorry story, still miss her and wonder how life has treated her or she has treated life

Answer 2

The stamp of my approval on my friends, has been knowing when to cut my friends. I have never conformed to the styles that they had, nor have I sinned with them.

First off, I think that we all sin way before we even get our core group of friends. To say that you start "sinning" with them, is a completely differect matter. You assume that most of the population has been into this predicament and have faced this. I have not. I am the oddball.

I was raised to be myself always. Never to be what others wanted me to be. I never had to wrestle with any anxiety. And what if some friends have lied to you, but they were doing it to protect you? Would you consider them to be a new set of low-life liars? Or would they be your saviour that they just protected you from harm?

For you to label people as such, maybe you need more stats. More numbers, rather than the name calling. To me, it also sounds like you are willing to cast the first stone, or maybe you have just had a bad experience. If that is the case, you are venting and completely understandable. But to want to hear from others miseries, I will not indulge you. If you have had the right upbringing, you know that when you get out on your own and start to experience life, you can tell who your friends are, and who are not. I stay away from the ones that I am not.

People's stories you would hope, would help others, but people are not going to be shaken, unless they want to be shook. If it is change, they have to want the change first, you cannot force it upon anyone through other people's miseries.

Answer 3

I like my friends. Because they aren't part of 'a crowd'
We are all different. We don't follow the norm. I am a hopeless romantic. My best friend is a video games enthusiast and anime addict with an unswayable resolve, and lets his grandma choose his clothes for him. Other friends include someone to whom family is everything, and nothing else matters in the slightest, and someone who believes in utmost independence to the point of placing small value on his current position in life. But, we are all kind of cool in our own right, because we're different, because we stick out. We're unique, and people like us because of that. WE like us because of that.

Answer 4

Yes, what is the price of friendship. When that happens. I understand you only too well.

Answer 5

a best friend knows how to dlck you over in the best ways.

Answer 6

My friendship is given away, it is not sold.