Good riddance to bad rubbish

Hi guys, I hope we are all doing well. I am here to share my entry into the week's prompt on the friendship that I ended. You know, I started being indifferent about friendship a few years back. In fact, before then, I used to be a lover girl in friendship. I used to be friends with all of them. Imagine, I would even write letters to my friend, celebrating him or her, and letting him or her know how much I cherish the friendship. I backed up my words with actions. I would go to the supermarket and buy the most lovely gifts for my friend. Though I didn't use to keep a bevy of friends, I used to keep it simple like just a good friend at a time.

So, there was this friend of mine I met at my workplace. Though I was there some months before her. In fact, I was the one that interviewed her and she did excellently. So, she resumed and we became friends. Not long after, we became so close that we introduced each other to our respective families. She was married while I was single but it wasn't a barrier because she trusted me. Everything was going fine until I realised she lied so much to me. In fact, I realized 80 percent of what she had ever told me about herself was a lie. At first, she lies about her daughter's health. She complained to me that her daughter used to cry at night, and told me it was due to something. So, I went home to tell my mother and she tried to get a cure for what she named for us, unknown to us it was something else, in fact something more critical that we were even aware of. So, I wonder why she would lie to us and make my mother and I worry for nothing.

I also realised that immediately I informed her about my Master's degree programme, she told me that her sister was also undergoing her Master's degree, and so also her husband, which I later discovered to be false. I couldn't just come to why she had to lie to me about everything, and whenever I informed her of my plan to forge ahead, she would tell me one of her relatives was already there. In fact, she told me she had had her civil wedding prior to having her baby and she even showed me her wedding dress. I later discovered she had her baby out of wedlock and had never had any form of wedding until she decided to leave her husband for some reasons.

Not long after she left her husband and relocated, I visited her new city and made arrangements to branch and pass the night at her place, but after I informed her of my arrival into the city. She refused to pick my calls again, leaving me stranded all night in a strange place. When I realised she might have done it on purpose, I risked a night journey and travelled back to my hometown. Only for her to call me when I got to my hometown that she left her phone somewhere. I knew it was another lie. "I have had enough", I told myself. I couldn't tolerate such a person again, even though she was lovely and kind as I thought. I couldn't overlook the other aspect. I never knew what to term it. I was never in competition with her. I have always wished her well, but she seemed like a different person when I discovered some things about her on my own. So, I decided to end the friendship. I felt her heart was too deep and could be filled with things that could harm me. The person that lied so much to me, locked me out in the night and refused to pick my calls in a new city, could do more harm.

So, I decided to end the so-called friendship before it would end me. And I would say, I had my peace and never regretted ending the friendship for once.

Thanks for reading.

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