The friendship between my best friend and me had been strongly built for a very long time. It seemed like we always told the truth to each other and never said “no” when the other needed help. This friendship kept growing up even when I had a girlfriend. I still tried my best to balance the relationship between my girlfriend and my best friend so that I could make both feel happy.
Things happened when my friend asked me to come to help her with the project on the following day. The problem was that I had already dated my girlfriend to go out for movie. At that time, like a natural reaction without thinking carefully, I made up a stupid lie about having family business to refuse her. My friend was easily convinced and I was sure she would never know the truth.
However, everything turned out to be totally different from what I had imagined. I was caught by my friend while I was hanging out with my girlfriend. That was a really uncomfortable experience to me. Like a child caught doing bad things by his parents, I felt absolutely embarrassed. Even worse, my friend totally ignored me on the next days. It would have been easier for me if she simply complained to me or even shouted at me for cheating her. In that case, I could have had a chance to say sorry. Yet, she kept silent and avoided talking with me even when I tried to call her many times.
The situation prolonged by a couple of weeks. During that time, I suddenly felt so empty. I remembered the good time between us then realized how important this friendship was to me. I couldn’t imagine how sad and lonely I would be if I lost this friendship forever. Those thoughts empowered me to find out the best way to cool down with her. I set my mind on saying sorry to her. Fortunately, my friend and I talked with each other again after a long period of cold war that seemed like longer than a year to me. Maybe after all that time, both of us had found out our friendship was too strong to be easily broken up that she finally accepted my apology.
Friendship is hard to be kept yet easy to be broken. Conflicts will inevitably arise from time to time; however, if we know how to wisely deal with them, our precious friendship will certainly evolve.
This is a photo of my best friend and me. We were going on a field trip. It feels so good when having friends around. May those memories and our friendship last with time :-)
