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By Judy Ramsook
Feb. 10, 2006 Friendships are important, from an early age we start making friends with our classmates at school and later on in life we make some in college and in the work place. In fact some therapists will say that it is healthy for some one to have as many friends as he or she can acquire because it’s good for one’s self esteem, growth and self confidence. It also builds social skills. Sad to say, but there are some persons on this road of life who will and sometimes take their friends for granted when it comes to certain situations. Say, for example everything is going well with you and a certain good friend, but for some reason or the other, that friend chooses to use you as his or her alibi for a few hours or an entire evening for that matter. The friend might want to participate all of a sudden, in something his or her parents may not approve of, so to put their minds at ease, the friend tells his or her parents that he or she is spending the evening with you. For the moment you go along with your friend’s request, after all you have been friends for quite a number of years and if you don’t tell his or her parents what transpired during that evening, how else are they going to learn of their child’s indiscretions. Right? Right. So the evening is running along just fine, your friend has left to go wherever with whomever and you are passing the time doing something you enjoy such as a favourite past time be it watching a movie, something on television, listening to music or reading. Then suddenly the telephone rings. Not thinking too much of who it might be at the other end, you answer it and become stunned into learning that the caller is the father of your friend. He suddenly has an urgent need to give his son or daughter a message. Not quite certain what to do, you say your friend is in the bath room. Please take into consideration especially in this day of the cellular telephone technology, since your friend is supposed to be spending the evening with you, he or she did not bring along his or her cell phone. Something which puts you in quite a bind. For not only can’t you call your friend out from the rest room, but worse, you can’t even contact him or her period. One more thing that crosses your mind is, you know that if your friend’s father does not hear from your friend any time soon, he will call back. Eventually it happens, he does end up making another call, at which point you have a choice. You can either break down and confess what your friend is really doing or tell another lie and another and another until, at some point, your friend’s father will realise something is not right. A situation such as what has been described above, did happen to me, but only once. Had it not occurred, that person and I would have still been the best of friends today. I ended the friendship for fear that something similar might occur again. And I did not want to be blamed if something dangerous in nature had happened to my friend. If you treasure your friends, don’t take them for granted or use them as your alibi. At some point the truth will come to light. ------------ About the author Judy Ramsook: My first book titled: "Karen's Adventure" which is about two young girls who go in search of their missing parents, is now available. I was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago, then in the mid eighties I came to the US where I attended San Antonio College and The University Of Texas At San Antonio. Visit: http://www.authorsden.com/judyramsook www.publishedauthors.net/g2rdy Email: j2rdy@hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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