What Do You Do When No One Wants To Be Your Friend

Life can be really hard at times when no one seems to care. It can seem even harder when one doesn’t have a friend to bare. Some things I learned that I would like to share for those who need solutions to spare.

Riku Arikiri
ILLUMINATION
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15 min readJul 9, 2020

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We have always been susceptible to what society demands of us to fit a specific stereotype. Some of the times, we are unsuccessful to fully adapt to the environment we are placed in. We find it hard to connect to others and moreover ourselves as well. This conflict increases the distastefulness towards others which is directly shown in our behaviors. It surrounds and follows us like a sad cloud that pushes people away whenever we try to connect with someone or perhaps try to befriend someone.

Life seems to become an endless circle of suffering and we feel like we are the only ones there. It causes us to feel ill towards social anxiety and depression as we feel we are not enough. It is perhaps something that is through the mindset we adopt, that we neither love ourself nor are we able to love another. We can’t foster feelings of nurturing for ourselves and thus this attitude seems to push others away from us as well.

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Riku Arikiri
ILLUMINATION

It’s never black or white. Sometimes there’s a bit of spicy red in there as well.