Monday, November 01, 2004
The Love-Hate Friendship
Okay, so we all have a love-hate friendship with the person that you want to hang out with but regret ever wanting to afterwards. And you keep going back for more! Everything about this person annoys you - and you can even say you dislike them at times...but something keeps you friends.
What is up with that?? Why do we have friends that we don't like? Because it's too difficult to just "let people go?" At some point or another, I guess we have to start thinking about surrounding ourselves with people who add positive aspects to our lives and just let the negative ones fade away...
For me, it's easy to be "civil" to friends that have drifted away or who you've never really "made up" with after a fight. But it always makes me feel so phony...like I'm being nice just for the sake of being nice...and it makes me sad to know that you have to resort to being "civil" with someone you once considered a "friend."
What is up with that?? Why do we have friends that we don't like? Because it's too difficult to just "let people go?" At some point or another, I guess we have to start thinking about surrounding ourselves with people who add positive aspects to our lives and just let the negative ones fade away...
For me, it's easy to be "civil" to friends that have drifted away or who you've never really "made up" with after a fight. But it always makes me feel so phony...like I'm being nice just for the sake of being nice...and it makes me sad to know that you have to resort to being "civil" with someone you once considered a "friend."
