Something has been bothering me of late. But first let me tell you a story .....
A long, long time ago in a suburb far far away there were two teenage girls - let's call them Pinky and Ditsy, they were best friends and they did almost everything together almost every weekend. Then along came a boy and said girlfriend, became engaged and eventually married boy. All was going well up until the wedding day when Pinky met another girl, let's call her Psycho, who was also in the wedding party. (However, by this stage original friendship was already showing signs of wear & tear.)
Anyway, the story continues that Pinky and Psycho had formed an alliance with each other and started seeing each other behind Ditsy's back. Since the original teenage friendship was already on the rocks the introduction of Pshycho was like adding fuel to the fire. The new friendship blossomed and grew, mainly out of a need to bag and bitch about Ditsy. Pinky agreed with everything Pshycho said plus added even more dirt to keep the conversations going.
Eventually what happened was that Pinky and Psycho ran out of things to say and the friendship fell apart. Pinky ended up being all alone, she lost her best friend of over 10 years and for what? Nothing but some awful back-stabbing and a few giggles. I learned a valuable lesson from all this, NEVER gang up on your true friends to make new friends!
Can you guess what's bothering me?
From my blog, a lot of people know the story of Sam and Di. And it happened almost exactly how you told it. But no one got married. We just let a horrid 'Psycho' bag us both out to the other person and were encouraged by Psycho to do the same. And eventually everything got back to the other and while one of us was preparred to try and resolve it, the other was too sad and hurt.
ReplyDeleteIt took 8 years befor we could talk again. But because we both acknowleged that we were young and very dumb and that Psycho was indeed a Psycho, we have managed to build a new bridge.
Perhaps if you found your old friend she might be able to let you back in?