My mom always used to say: "(you fill in the name) isn't really your friend or who you think is your friend isn't." I'd always roll my eyes and walk away. Back then, I never really understood what she meant but as I got older I began to see what she meant.
I always considered myself a good friend. If you confided in me, that's exactly what you were doing. If you told me you were friends with someone and I knew that someone was talking shit about you...I'm gonna tell you.(You wonder why your business is in the streets well.....) If I heard something on the streets about you.....I'm coming to you about it. I sometimes find myself around people who talk about other people behind their back.(technically isn't that in your face, so shouldn't it behind your face?) Mind you, they call these people their friends. In my mind I'm like wow and you call yourself a friend?
The older I get and go through things in life, I see who is and who isn't a friend. I'm almost in my mid-thirties and as I entered into my thirties, I've learned who's real and who isn't. It's funny because the people that I've met along the way have been better friends to me than those who I've known longer. Wow, as I typed that, I shook my head and said that was a damn shame.
It's funny because now that I'm older I understand what my mother meant back then. And believe it or not, the ones she called out are the ones who I don't speak to. I guess when we're young we are blind but then later in life we really begin to see who our real friends are.
