He lives in a time where having
friends is a must and an important part of who he is. They are the people we turn to when we need
to let loose and have fun and even the people we turn to after a breakup when
we just need someone to listen and pity us or be brutally honest with us. As a
kid he had plenty of friends, almost everybody in his cohort in school he knew
by name and they would know him as well. But fast forward to when it wasn’t
school days anymore and the people he knew in school were just that, a memory.
They’d all grown up and they all had their own goals in life. But to him he
viewed it differently. Why did people stop putting in effort? Was it too
bothersome to put an effort to make a friendship last? But over time he
actually came to accept the world as it had become. The phrase was always true
in the aspect that you couldn’t choose your family but you could choose your
friends. This attributed to him being a person who was always alone. People
would tell him that his view wasn’t that of someone who had accepted loneliness
but someone who was being negative and wasn’t making the effort. But to them
they never knew how much of an effort he always put into a friendship because
to them he was a man who had given up. To those who knew him personally he was
always there for them whenever they needed it, and he’d always be there still
if they needed him. But nobody seemed actually care about him. Most notably
whenever his ‘friends’ got into a relationship they’d immediately forget about
him and would only remember his existence if they had an argument with their
other half or needed some monetary help. So to him he was alone not by choice
as well but because the world simply didn’t care about him and he had come to
accept that his purpose in life was to make others around him happy but for him
to always be alone. A curse he never wanted to apart of. Looking back, he lost
more of himself through ‘friends’ rather than when he fell in love. And now at
his age as time catches up to him, he still stands alone because nobody really
cares about him anymore. And he’s come to accept it because such is life.
