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I never for once get to choose my friend maybe, it's because, i don't like how distant they become when they found a new friend.
Have you seen a loner before?
Well,i knew of one, two, three..... and five thereabout.
And i was an addition to the aforementioned numbers.
Or you find it hard to believe?
Well, i preferred being alone and for a truth, i enjoyed my company to others.
Eeehh........don't blame me too much for being like this because then, that's was my narrow minded way of curbing mistrust, betrayal, denial etc.
My friend! Where have you been? you travelled or na school no free you lately?
The aged man asked hurriedly,expecting a quick response that'll at least kill his curiosity concurrently, i was taken aback and for splitting seconds i indistinctly muttered the word "friend".
I had this unearthly demeanor because, i was of this school of thought that sees the word "friend" as a word that's far too heavy to be pronounced or bequeathed on people carelessly like that.
Don't i have friends? Of course, I do but, i rather took them as acquaintances even when they see me as a friend.
"Everyone needs a friend"...
Day in, day out,
Whether dusk or dawn,
Whether the cloud is crying blood or water,
During the good days or bad days,
Whether in a good countenance or otherwise.
Excitingly, cheerfully and with a contagious smile i would greet the old man, who has a small stall beside my residence.(where he earned his daily bread through his cobbling job)
Perhaps, that's one of the "do with" ingredients of friendship. Just maybe, that was why the aged man took me as a friend.
It takes two to tango right?
My friend! Na home i travel go ooo, i replied. The right choice of words finally found me.
Dear Younger Me/ Young Ones,
•Good friends are rare to find and harder to keep.
Also, it takes two good friends to make a good friendship.
• You can never be a good friend to others when you're a bad friend to yourself hence,you can't give what you don't have.
• The quality of your friendship determines the quantity of your life, so be mindful of who you choose as a friend
• Give so much love to yourself and you wouldn't seem desperate to earn other people's love in form of attention and care in any SHIP.(Whether friendship or relationship)..
• Don't be desperate else, you'll be prey on.
"The friend you never had is the friend you've never been to yourself "...
©Medemausi
The picture is mine!