A Moment Of Growth

I always felt like it was taking me so long to grow up until one particular evening. My brother’s friend told me about one particular incident that was bothering her.

According to what she told me, she had been offended by her colleague. They were best of friends in school, but when they completed, the lady stole her dreams. She had plans of starting a particular business and it included the marketing strategy. In fact, it was a big PDF that had a lot of things.

She said she trusted her enough to show the plans she had and all. She wanted a trustworthy and truthful person to give her the right criticism she needed. What annoys her the most is how she actually never got the critics she was expecting. Her friend never had anything to add or take from the plans she always presented to her.

But some months after school, she saw a business that looked exactly like hers. She started panicking because even the flyers looked exactly like what she had in mind. The website and all.

She immediately took a screenshot of what she saw and sent it to her friend but that was when she realized that she had been blocked. She didn’t understand what was happening. But one particular day, she met her friend in town, and as she approached her all smiley, the friend rather gave her the cold shoulder.

In that moment, she didn’t need any more awkward treatment to know that her friend was the one behind the new business. She felt so betrayed and heartbroken. She wanted to fight her so bad and actually sue her, but she didn’t know where to start.

When she narrated everything to me, I asked her why she didn’t start the business after school and she told me she didn’t have the capital. She asked me what to do and honestly, I was just so calm about it.

I made her understand that I really felt her pain and all that she was going through. I’ve also experienced such heart break and betrayal from friends before. I even shared an experience where I was left stranded in the middle of nowhere at night by a friend, and she was shocked.

I then told her to just let it go and start thinking of a new business if, truly, business was something she wanted to do. I made her know that fighting her friend wasn’t even worth it and she was just going to waste her time. So she should channel that energy into whatever new goals she had.

After giving that advice, I was shocked at the words that came out of my mouth because I’m normally a tit for tat person. But this time, I told her to let go and embrace peace. I realized I was actually growing, and all that mattered to me was peace, which made me so proud.