Broken friendship

In life, there are two things that are very precious to us. One is family, and the other one is friends. In the case of family, it's related, and there is no way we can control it or choose it, but in the case of friendship, it's decided by us, or it's the result of our choices. Since childhood, we have made many friends, but at present, few of them are with us. We lost some friends for no reason, and again, we lost some friends because we ended the friendship.

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I am a very picky one when it comes to making friends, and I am very careful in that case. So, there were very few cases when I ended a friendship. I think anything a friendship does does not require so much effort if one is determined to break it off. In my case, I also have a story of ending a friendship, and today I am going to share about it.

In the time I was in class X. One of my classmates used to live in the same building. Although I belong to the top student, it has nothing to do with making friends. So, with time, we became friendly, and I started to consider him a full friend. His parents were also very good, and their behavior was amazing. They also loved me a lot. Everything was going well. He had a bad habit, and after knowing about it, I just suggested he change the habit because it would be beneficial for him. As a well-wisher and as a friend, I just suggested changing the habit. The bad habit of his was doing emotional blackmail. My suggestion was for his good, but he became aggressive hearing my suggestion.

He stopped talking to me for a while. I think he thought I was interfering in this personal decision, and that's why he acted in that way. I didn't do anything wrong in my opinion, but still, I tried to make up with him, as he had never done anything wrong to me. Although I didn't like his attitude, after I insisted, some days everything became normal. But the same thing gave me a scratch in friendship. It would be healed with time, but another incident happened.

He and another friend of mine had a disagreement, and because of that, they stopped talking with each other. I tried to solve the issue, and in the middle, my close friend told me that I was not allowed to talk to that friend. If I talked with that friend, then the friendship between us would end. It was kind of ridiculous logic, and I said, "What does it have to do with me?" because I didn't have any fight with that friend. He kept insisting not to talk with that friend if I want to be friends with him. I was angry because of that kind of nonsense logic, and the thing I hate most is emotional blackmail. I always act against the person if someone tries to do emotional blackmail on me. He thought I would not choose the other friend over him, as I was his close friend.

I chose to break the friendship with my close friend because he tried to play the emotional card with me, which I hate most, and I knew he would say things like that if I allowed him to do so. All the while, he gave me the choice, but I made the decision to break the friendship. And whenever I made a decision, I followed it strictly. In that case, it was not different. From that day, I stopped talking to him. In the beginning, he showed arrogance, but later he apologized to me and tried to fix the friendship. But from my side, I ended it permanently. He tried to make up with me several times, but he failed to do so because of no response from my side. The reason was very silly, but it was the reason I ended the friendship, and I never talked to him at any time. Even after several years, when I met with him at the reunion, I didn't talk to him. In my eyes, friendship is like a mirror; if it's broken, it means it can't be reconstructed.