Several
Had one just a few days ago in fact
It is a somewhat complicated, very involved story, but the gist is, I have come to the realization that I am a person's burden. And I am that burden due to my friendship with that person
This person, this friend, has evidently been put in a position wherein he has had to cover for my less than exemplary behavior. He has had to make excuses for me, justify his relationship with me
And, apparently, he has had to lie for me
The entire time he has been under this burden I have been under the disillusion that I was carrying my own weight in the friendship/relationship we had
I honestly thought I had been holding up my end of the deal
Recently though, it was made clear that every motivation I had for doing anything that I thought construed as holding up my end of the friendship dealio was just selfishness on my part
It's been a horrible realization, as it means there is only one way for me to relive the burden that I have placed on this friendship
And that, of course, is to dissolve the bonds which have connected us as friends
Or talk to them. It would be lack of communication that ends the friendship, not being a burden.
ReplyDeleteIt really depends on what these less than exemplary behaviors are.
ReplyDeleteI think that anyone that has spent enough time with you and gets Chris probably would want to keep your friendship and is probably not burdened by it
I agree. What you think is a burden might not be to the other person. Some differences and actions are worth ignoring to keep a friendship. I think if it were a burden, the friendship would have ended a long time ago.
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