Silent end of a friendship

Life is a long journey, and on this journey, we meet lots of people. Some of them become friends of ours, and some are only passersby who don’t have any impact or influence on our lives. Again, among those friends, very few are lifetime friends who stay with us all the time after becoming friends, and again, there are also some friends who stay with us for a temporary time. The end of a friendship can occur for various reasons. Some friendships are broken after some kind of betrayal, and again, some friendships end silently without any notice.

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In the case of making friends, I was very careful since my childhood, and I didn’t become friendly to anyone in a short time. Maybe it’s because I was an introvert, or it was because I was afraid of making wrong friends or fake friends. Whatever the reason, it was good for me, and I have made very few friends in my life, but I am sure that most of them were my genuine friends, and I feel very proud thinking that most of my friends are real, and they will support me whenever I need it. Instead of making genuine friends, I lost a few friends silently, and today I am going to share one of those.

Let’s call him Alauddin. I met him when I was in class VIII. He used to live in the same building. I used to go out with him all the time. He was a very decent person, and his understanding capability was also good. I was his friend for three years, and whenever I was outside of home, I was with him for sure. He was a student of business studies, and I was a student of science, but he was a talented person for sure.

His family background was a political background. And to be honest, the thing I hate most is politics because I don’t think politics from a positive perspective is possible, at least not in my country. The thing I liked most was that he also didn’t like politics, unlike all of his family members being involved in politics. I can clearly remember he also suggested I not get involved in politics because he also knows how dirty politics are, as he could observe it from very close. I also didn’t see any intention of him in politics. His thoughts and mindset were indeed impressive to me.

After 3 years of friendship, I shifted to a different location, and with time I became busy with my studies, and communication decreased a lot. I met him again because both of us got the chance to get ready at the same public university. I think he has also done well with his studies; otherwise, he would not have the chance to admit it there. I was happy to reconnect with him. Unfortunately, he changed, and I understood it with time. He became active in politics. I didn’t like it, but it was not enough to end the friendship. I thought he might do politics for good reasons. Later, I found out that he was connected with some illegal activities, and it was kind of hard to believe because I didn’t imagine a person could change so much in 2 years. It was an eye-opening sight for me. I didn’t like the changed version of him, and I thought staying with him might bring many troubles to me. I am very good at prediction, and I could understand what kind of risk is involved in staying beside me. I just stopped reconnecting with him, and slowly again the connection disappeared. I never told him the reason, and he never asked me either. And that was the end of the friendship.