Here’s Why Your Friends Are Not Supporting You

Genesis Onomiwo
5 min readNov 12, 2021

The puzzling true story of a public figure in Nigeria reveals some dark facts…

Picture by Majid Rangraz

One time on Instagram, a popular Nigerian thought leader once bared his mind in his birthday post that he doesn’t have more than 6 friends in the whole world. Are you kidding me? A public figure!? That post got me thinking very deeply. Apart from the fact that I know the person in question closely enough to be able to inform my thoughts about his position, I have come to realize that his case is not peculiar.

True, no man is an island. And in life, one definitely needs more than oneself to help oneself.

But why does it sometimes appear that the journey of life for so many people rather seems to be a lonely one?

Some hide under the guise of being busy, others claim that it is better to be alone than in the wrong company, and so on. While these points are no doubt valid to an extent, it doesn’t remove the fact that for very many, the journey of life is nothing but a burden, with no one to share in the pains and pressures that naturally come with living life.

Now, if you’ve been wondering why no one, I mean none of your “friends” seem interested in being a part of what’s important to your life, the reasons below will serve as an eye-opener for you and you’ll also be able to know what to…

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