Foolishness 101

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Genuinely, I like to think of myself as a good guy. I hate to see my friends in difficult situations and would try my possible best to always help out in whatever way I can. And that is why I hate to hear stories of my friends in messed up situation, especially when I can't help at the moment, not because I don't want to but maybe because I don't have the resources at the moment.

And due to the fact that I happen to be that person, I always used to think that everyone else around me would do the same but I soon learned that's not how the world works.

I have this friend who used to be my close friend back in the day, kinda like my right hand man. Whenever I had money with me, I would always take care of us both. What that meant was that whatever I was getting for myself, I would get for him too. So if I went to the restaurant to get takeout for myself, I would get two because this was a friend who basically was taking care of 80% of his needs in school, so I decided to help out whenever I could.

But then something happened that just kinda showed him for who he truly was. I soon noticed that whenever this friend of mine comes in contact with a substantial amount of money, he would rather flaut and spend it on people who don't know his struggle, on friends he hasn't seen or heard from in months, rather than his friends with him around.

Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't pained because he wasn't giving me any of it, it was nothing like that because I wasn't doing all I did for him to pay me back. My anger was based on the fact that he was so focused on living this fake life that makes people believe he had money when in reality, he had nothing.

So whenever he had money on him, he would come online to his WhatsApp status to organize silly giveaways, giveaways that mostly had only ladies as the winners and then he would screenshot their reply and post on his status, kinda letting everyone know he's a man of his word and when he goes broke, he goes back to square one, which is literally surviving on little to nothing and me giving him the little I had.

I'm not the type to tell person what to do especially when it comes to the aspect of money so when he repeated this silly giveaway thing a couple of times, I slowly moved away from him. The sad thing is that he can't even go ask those same girls for money because he doesn't want them to see him as "someone who's broke" so after spending foolishly on them, he goes to the guys, the same people he didn't spend on, to beg for money.

Foolishness 101.