How Not To Be Bitter When A Friendship Goes Sour Or South

Keep Your Life In Check When You Get Hurt By A Pal

We all become disappointed when a friendship ends, particularly when it is a life-long friendship that abruptly ceases over a careless remark or a thoughtless act in an unguarded or indiscreet moment. Sometimes a friendship halts because like a piece of fruit, there’s only so much juice left in it before it dries out — and it just may simply be time to move on. In yet other instances, a friendship may transition to unplanned closure due to selfish or selfless reasons, by mistake or by design, or just because, as some things are just meant to be or not to be.

However it transpires, don’t let the failure or finality of a friendship eat you up as if you indeed were that piece of dried-up fruit. You simply can’t do that to yourself. It serves no purpose. It does nothing for you. It’s detrimental to your health in every which way, be it mental, psychological, emotional, physical, and sometimes even financial. That’s right, losing a friend can sometimes make you poor — because your weak and poor-in-spirit soul can become so distracted by the disheartened relationship that it starts to affect your work in unproductive ways.

And what happens after that? You’ll lose your job and subsequently end up in what my father used…