Wake up time!
Friends Who Do Not Like Your Posts
Don’t like you in real life, too!
Before I start writing, I want to declare that this post is inspired by my writer friend, Srini’s latest post.
I love his writing and must admit that I share a lot of thoughts similar to what he writes. His sarcasm and humour have me chuckling and laughing out loud. At times his observations are outright funny and always relatable as hell.
You made your reel on Instagram, and you are excited to share it with the world but firstly your friends. And, it is not that simple and easy. Why you ask?
Well, I find it almost rude of some friends who like your reel only in the DM box and not openly on your reel. Hope you get the drift here. Only active Instagram users seem to be nodding their heads.
🥸 Let me explain; it is just like, instead of appreciating you in public, someone sends you a message, good job, not making their appreciation known to anyone. Yes, that is what I am talking about. It is just a mystery to me, why would known people do that to you? It’s just a like for God’s sake.
😟 you liked my reel specifically only on the chat box but won’t come out and like my content openly. Why would you do that? What am I? Your embarrassing content creator friend?
Sorry, but I deserve better. I deserve people who like what I put out. I deserve friends who support me no matter what I post. Sometimes, I have some opinionated opinions, even those I want to be liked. (No, I am not acting entitled, I just want your support. I am sure it’s not a lot to ask) 😏
Common, when Jennifer Aniston can have 42.9 Million Followers and most of them are unknown to her, can’t we count on the 42 people we know? Sigh the life of a commoner. 😒
A few months ago, a really close friend of mine broke up with me on WhatsApp, over WhatsApp. Wait what?! Yes, heard me right! She did. 😒
It was really interesting. I can be quite open in my thoughts, in the sense, I am fluid. I am not rigid. If I like someone, I can hate them at the same time too. I call this quality, something like “being open” and being fluid. And what is so wrong about it?
Turns out everything is. So I was chatting with my friend and we happened to start talking about a certain Guru and I was sharing my doubts about my once-upon-a-time strong faith in him and his teachings and practices I learnt at his conventions.
Slowly our conversation turned political and she said, he was the worst person alive. He has done the environment a lot of damage and so she hates him and wants nothing to do with him.
All of a sudden I became this person who became protective of my Guru and was trying to show the good in him, even though there were some silly things he might say once in a while.
While she said good night and we went our ways, I started browsing the Guru's short videos and reels by him. I found a lot of wisdom out there from him, which I shared on my status on WhatsApp.
The very next day I got a text from my friend, that she no longer wished to be in touch with me and that I seemed to be a two-faced person whom she wanted nothing to do with.
‘I am deleting your number. I don’t want to be in touch. Please understand’
I said a few things too. ‘I don't want to be hurt every now and then too. Goodbye’. That was it.
We never spoke again. It was like ‘Poof’. She just vanished, not needing to speak ever again. I remember her sometimes and in my nostalgia, I messaged her recently after God knows how many months.
Guess what, I had a stone-hearted friend. She never replied. 😏
🥶 Oooh cold!
My learning —
Choose better.
Make better friends.
Learn to see people for who they are, not who you think they are.
Throw your rose-tinted glasses forever, you don’t need them.
I am a good person, caring and loving, I need more like me to be sane in this sometimes difficult world.
I need friends who genuinely like me, not necessarily love me though.
Like is enough, like is not too heavy, like is doable. So really, find them, find good people.
Take chances on people. Don’t be closed.
You never know who could be the friend you never had.
(PS — Don’t be desperate, it's okay to be alone. It's better to be alone than to be with ‘Assholes’)
