Friends

Everyone needs friends, right? They make the world a little bit brighter, and help smooth the rough edges in your life, don't they? But when is friendship not so great? Well, I guess when it starts to be confusing, and the boundaries on friendship start to blur. Dating today is complicated enough, don't you think? So what is a person to do when the dreaded F word rears its ugly head. You know the one-"Let's be friends-that's all I want right now." I have used this particular dodge myself. It is a cowardly way to tell someone that you just don't like them like that. I don't care for it myself, the words were no sooner out of my mouth then I felt like an idiot for saying them. I guess I'm not a very good liar. But I was pretty sure that telling him his table manners were nonexistent and being seen with him was embarrassing wasn't going to make him feel great either. So I took the coward way out. Shame on me. But friendship can be a wonderful thing. My best friend of 25 years (which is amazing since we are both only 23) is one of the coolest people I know. She can make me laugh when I feel like six kinds of poo. She's like that. Another surprise is my Sister. Who knew that after all these years of getting on each other's nerves we would end up friends? I would have never guessed it, that's for sure. But friends are the thing that make the world a better place, most of the time. But back to the dodge. Please don't tell someone that you want to be friends when the truth is that you just don't want to date. Don't give a person any more false hope then they already have. Man up-as the saying goes-and let the person know that you don't want to be a part of their lives. It stings at first, but trust me, you'll thank me later.