We Don’t Know Who Our Friends AreBY: GABRIELLE ROGERS

A Friendly Endeavor

Mary and Rachel decided to go to nursing school together.

But soon, they weren’t getting along, and Mary wasn’t completing her assignments.

MARY RELIED ON RACHEL TO COMPLETE HER ASSIGNMENTS AND DO HER WORK. MARY THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST FINE, RACHEL DIDN’T FEEL THE SAME.

Mary was oblivious to the fact that Rachel was annoyed with her. She thought Rachel was enjoying college with her.

Even though most of us won’t cheat, or do extreme things, we’ve all been in this situation. We’ve all thought someone liked us who didn’t, and we’ve all pretended to like someone we didn’t.

Did you know that studies suggest that even though most of us believe the people we like, like us back, Only about 34-53 percent actually do?

WOW!

That’s a depressing

statistic

Don’t believe me? Think of all the ways we fake liking someone.

We Are FakeWe

smile at people

we don’t like

We tell people we like them when

we don’t

We get excited

for people when

we really don’t care

Some times we end up going to court with an ex-friend. Yikes! Because we are not honest with each other, we end up in these situations. Studies suggest we lie about ourselves even to our close friends to protect ourselves from judgement.

What can we do about all of this?

ACCEPT ITLEARN HOW TO PROTECT OURSELVES TRY TO BE MORE HONEST WITH OTHERS

So here we are, stuck in this world with a bunch of people who don’t like us, and a bunch of people we don’t like. Though this is the case, it’s important to remember that there are real friendships, and all we can do is protect ourselves just incase it isn’t.

SORT OF GRIM :(

ConclusionWe are good at

pretending to like people

Other people are good at pretending

to like usWe don’t know

who our friends are